Jenn K wrote: > I have been afraid of ems but I will give it a try. I am going to > try the 62.5% solution mentioned at http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348. > I guess it is unrealistic to believe that I can expand all of my > buttons to keep up with expanded text - or is it? Or should I really > lock it in and use image for text on buttons?
The value 62.5% as base will blow up the font-size quite a bit extra at my end, since I use the 'minimum font size' option with a much larger value. Make sure everything can take a few hundred percent resizing, as then it won't matter (for your layout) what value you use. For the end-user (visitor) it will matter, so maybe you should read this article first... <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_03_04.html> The use of 'em' for font-sizing is optional, as '%' can be used all the way. Images for text is never a good option, but there may be cases where images or some form of image-replacement is the only option. Can't see any reason for using images in the page you presented though. >> Build in some more flexibility, like 'height: auto' and containment >> on all containers - using 'min-height' as base-height, so your >> layout can take a little bit of stress without breaking. > > > Since I am using background images, am I correct to assume that I > will need to add header, body and footer background images to some > elements in each container (I guess using 3 divs instead of just 1?) Not necessarily, as all block elements can carry background, and all inline elements styled to "block" (one way or another) do the same. Of course, if you don't have suitable elements in the source-code, then you will have to add some. We're still waiting for the majority of browsers to support CSS3 multi-image background. Possible solutions... <http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200705/creating_bulletproof_graphic_link_buttons_with_css/> <http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200609/transparent_custom_corners_and_borders_version_2/> regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
