Hello, the main content of the website www.zeno.org is based on Bill Brown's holier grail (three columns, left and right fixed width, center liquid, negative margins, content first, min-width).
Please view this page for an example: http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Schnabel,+Johann+Gottfried/Romane/Wunderliche+Fata+einiger+See-Fahrer/Zweyter+Theil/Mons.+Plagers+Lebens-Geschicht At the bottom of the middle column, below the main text content, there is a footer (div.zenoCOFooter) containing the cource of the text, a permalink to the page and additional information. The permalink can become pretty long. In Firefox those informational texts are not wrapped, but the overflowing portions are hidden. IE7 and IE6 wrap if they can (for example of there is a hyphen in the permalink), and if there is still some text overlapping the hide it as well Safarai and GoogleChrome also wrap when there at hhe hyphen in the permalink, but do not crop the overflowing parts. The width of the middle column is kept to the width that the div.zenoCOFooter needs for its contents. This results in the right column jumping down. I then went from the bottom (the element containg the permalink [div.zenoCOFooterLineRight]) from parent to parent and tried to comment out css properties o to change them, or to insert "overflow: hidden;" That way I found out that if I do the following, then the overflowing permalink gets hidden and the middle column narrows itself as needed. div#zenoMFMiddle { /*original css (not content first)*/ position: relative; margin: 0 18em 0 14em; padding: 1em 1em .2em 1em; z-index: 1; /*the holier grail*/ display: inline; /* float: left;*/ <---- commented out this line margin: 0; /*width: 100%;*/ } Of course this is not a solution, because now the right column jumps down anyway, even if it would fit. Does anybody have any idea how to get Safarai/Chrome to drop the overflowing permalink? Best regards, Christian Kirchhoff *Directmedia Publishing GmbH* · Möckernstraße 68 · 10965 Berlin www.digitale-bibliothek.de AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HR B 58002 · USt.Id. DE173211737 Geschäftsführer: Ralf Szymanski ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
