[ale] learning CSS

[aaron]

On Monday 22 May 2006 23:51, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:22 -0400, William Witt wrote:
> > This is what I've come up with for my content pane:
> > 
> > div.contentpane {
> >             background-color: #ffffcc;
> >             position: absolute;
> >             top: 75px;
> >             height: expression(document.body.clientHeight - 75 + "px");
> >             bottom: 0;
> >             left: 100px;
> >             width: expression(document.body.clientWidth - 100 + "px");
> >             right: 0px;
> >             overflow: auto;
> >             padding-left: 75px;
> >             padding-right: 50px;
> >             padding-top: 50px;
> >             padding-bottom: 75px;     
> > }
> > 
> > Firefox ignores the expression lines and IE ignores the bottom and right 
> > lines, so it all comes out in the wash.
> 
> Hmm. I guess it's not good code practice to do a basic browser detect
> and redirect IE browsers to a "get Firefox" page.

No, that would be in the realm of GREAT code practice.  ;-)

peace
aaron