07-10-2003, 03:19 AM
Ummm yeah, that's what my site already does, and aetherfox's doesn't have a menu bar. My site does it with CSS, it's easy. In fact, it's more flexible, here's how:
table.maintable {width: 100%; margin: 5px 2%;}
table.maintable td.leftside {width: 11em;}
table.maintable td.rightside {width: 9em;}
You can't specify em's with normal measurements (I may be wrong, but I don't think so). The advantage of this method is that if the user resizes the screen to larger or smaller for whatever reason the menus always stay the same in terms of line breaking, so my nicely formatted links to other parts of the site don't line break. This method only becomes a problem on really low resolutions and high text sizes, but no one is that blind, and your method would be bad for them because the menu would always be the same size, so they couldn't read it. It's all about accessability.
ps: I see you use points as your text measurement. Why?
table.maintable {width: 100%; margin: 5px 2%;}
table.maintable td.leftside {width: 11em;}
table.maintable td.rightside {width: 9em;}
You can't specify em's with normal measurements (I may be wrong, but I don't think so). The advantage of this method is that if the user resizes the screen to larger or smaller for whatever reason the menus always stay the same in terms of line breaking, so my nicely formatted links to other parts of the site don't line break. This method only becomes a problem on really low resolutions and high text sizes, but no one is that blind, and your method would be bad for them because the menu would always be the same size, so they couldn't read it. It's all about accessability.
ps: I see you use points as your text measurement. Why?