Absolute Clearing
In between lessons I’ve been working on something I’ve mentioned a couple of times before. It’s the idea of having absolute positioning whilst still being able to “clear” all that’s gone before in order to have a footer always positioned at the foot of the page where it belongs.
When I originally went to Shaun Inman’s site, where I came across “ShortStat”, it was to read his articles relating to the use of Javascript to overcome the problems.
I’ve now setup an “absolute” test page using his methods. Now the drawback is that anyone who doesn’t have Javascript active will see a total mess. Those of you with Javascript try switching it off and refreshing the page. I suspect there is a way of telling if Javascript is active or not. If that’s the case you could send those without it elsewhere just as you do with IE users.
From the design standpoint I quite like the layout. I might consider recreating it without Javascript for use on the rest of The Bomb Site.
Edited
I’ve removed the links as I’ve now moved on.
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I like some of the layout parts of your new test page. The use of the 3 col. post is great, and gives it that newspaper look and feel --- maybe not for all, but oh well? I turned off my java, and only the intro text was garbage, so I'm guessing that was the only place you used java? It looks good, but, the fixed background was just like your last page, before this one, sort of got in the way while reading the text. I should show a screen-shot of it in IE. Really warn IE user's....
And speaking about the "footer..." I should start working on mine... I still have that problem. I'm going to use your CSS "tip" for that. :shifty: thanks for the info Stuart.
@Tom - I can't see anything wrong in IE Tom. In fact, for once, it looks identical.
I looked at them again with Netscape (4.7 + up) and they look OK. Firefox, ---looks great and propper. :think:
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