Re: [css-d] collapsing vertical margins

2007-07-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
>> (definitely! I can create a bigger and more complex mess _with_ CSS, >> than anyone could do before CSS... :-) ) > The humour helps! ; - ) Sometimes humor is all we can throw at weak and buggy browsers. The fact remains though: we can be much more creative with CSS than without it - even in

Re: [css-d] collapsing vertical margins

2007-07-30 Thread Michael Leibson
- Original Message From: Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michael Leibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:09:14 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] collapsing vertical margins >(definitely! I can create a bigger and more complex

Re: [css-d] collapsing vertical margins

2007-07-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Leibson wrote: > (With all the workarounds necessary for noncompliant browsers, are > you really any further ahead than you were before CSS?) (definitely! I can create a bigger and more complex mess _with_ CSS, than anyone could do before CSS... :-) ) > I've found that giving a box elem

[css-d] collapsing vertical margins

2007-07-29 Thread Michael Leibson
Michael Leibson wrote: >> . . . IE6 suddenly ignores paragraph margin-right when that paragraph is >> absolutely positioned (it respects all other margins, >> however). What is THAT all about?? >Alan Gresley responded: > . . . Since you have a width set for your container, it has hasLayout (for

Re: [css-d] collapsing vertical margins

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Gresley
Michael Leibson wrote: > Hi; > > (With all the workarounds necessary for noncompliant browsers, are you really > any further ahead > than you were before CSS?) > > I've found that giving a box element absolute positioning stops its vertical > margins from > collapsing.* Any good reasons why one

[css-d] collapsing vertical margins

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Leibson
Hi; (With all the workarounds necessary for noncompliant browsers, are you really any further ahead than you were before CSS?) I've found that giving a box element absolute positioning stops its vertical margins from collapsing.* Any good reasons why one shouldn't use absolute positioning ev