Monday, 6 May 2002

Phew - Well I figured it out. This is the before picture. Note how the gray bar for CATEGORIES touches the verticle rule. The CSS for the whole left hand column is content below. The gray block headings on the right are sidetitle:   #content {   float:left;   width:65%;   background:#fff;   border-right:1px solid #999;   margin-right:15px;   padding-bottom:200px;   }   sidetitle {   font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;   color:#666;   font-size:9px;   font-weight:bold;     background:#EEE;     line-height:14px;     padding:2px;     margin-top:10px;     text-align:center;     text-transform:uppercase;   letter-spacing: .2em;          }  Notice that the width is set to a relative size - 65%. When I changed that to a fixed size of 440px and added a fixed width for the sidetitle of 180px - wella. Everything worked out just like I wanted it to. You can see the finished product here. I'd still be interested in the rationale behind this "feature" - please comment. 8:05:38 PM    Comments ()

HELP! - I have just spent 2 hours mucking around with the stylesheet for my MT blog. And for the life of me I cannot understand why the gray box around the words Categories and Archives and Recent Entries goes right to the solid line. <edit> I want to have a 10px space between the vertical rule and the gray box with the text in it...like this one. Yet strangely when I apply his style-sheet to my site - the gray boxes go right the the line again... </edit> I would have thought you would add a margin-lef attribure - but no. I cannot seem to influence the left hand edge of these boxes at all. Any suggestions from those whose knowledge of these intricacies is greater than mine? Thanks in advance! 7:26:39 PM    Comments ()