[teaching with drupal] funky table problem

Tue Apr 29 13:23:41 EDT 2008

http://biketoworkspokane.org/themes/zen/zen_classic/layout.css

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Bleck, Bradley <BradB at spokanefalls.edu>
wrote:

> Okay, last question. Where am I going to find layout.css? I can't find it.
>
> Bradley Bleck
> English Department
> Spokane Falls CC
> http://bleckblog.org
> http://biketoworkspokane.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: teaching-bounces at drupaled.net [mailto:teaching-bounces at drupaled.net]
> On Behalf Of Dan Butcher
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:00 PM
> To: teaching with drupal
> Subject: Re: [teaching with drupal] funky table problem
>
> You're fine as long as someone's doesn't go under 1071 px wide with their
> browser window--which means the 1024px monitors will still jam it up,
> because at less than 1071, your right sidebar still rides over the center
> section. I would still change the min-width setting in your css so that
> smaller windows will get the horizontal scroll bar and not the overlapping
> columns.
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Bleck, Bradley <BradB at spokanefalls.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > I took the make it deeper rather than wider advice and that seems to
> have
> > addressed the problem, at least on my work computer. That's probably
> simpler
> > than tweaking the css. Thanks.
> >
> > Bradley Bleck
> > English Department
> > Spokane Falls CC
> > http://bleckblog.org
> > http://biketoworkspokane.org
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: teaching-bounces at drupaled.net [mailto:
> teaching-bounces at drupaled.net]
> > On Behalf Of Dan Butcher
> > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:26 AM
> > To: teaching with drupal
> > Subject: Re: [teaching with drupal] funky table problem
> >
> > If you  change min-width in layout.css (it's near the top) so that it's
> > set
> > to 1255px, the overlap stops:
> >
> > body.two-sidebars {
> >  min-width: 1255px;
> > }
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Bleck, Bradley <BradB at spokanefalls.edu
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I tried that Jim, and had pretty much the same problem I do now.
> > >
> > > Bradley Bleck
> > > English Department
> > > Spokane Falls CC
> > > http://bleckblog.org
> > > http://biketoworkspokane.org
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: teaching-bounces at drupaled.net [mailto:
> > teaching-bounces at drupaled.net]
> > > On Behalf Of Jim kalmbach
> > > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:18 AM
> > > To: teaching with drupal
> > > Subject: Re: [teaching with drupal] funky table problem
> > >
> > > You might try converting the table to pixels rather than percentages.
> > > You may need to download the images to your site and resize them.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > > On Apr 28, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Bleck, Bradley wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks Dan. One thing that doesn't make sense is I'm looking at it
> > > > on two different 17" monitors, though one is formatted more for
> > > > movie viewing (my laptop) and the desktop monitor is squarer, kinda
> > > > the standard box screen. But I'm not sure the laptop screen is all
> > > > that much wider. Also, if I set the table width as low as 50
> > > > percent, it still spills over with no appreciable narrowing.
> > > >
> > > > Bradley Bleck
> > > > English Department
> > > > Spokane Falls CC
> > > > http://bleckblog.org
> > > > http://biketoworkspokane.org
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: teaching-bounces at drupaled.net [mailto:teaching-
> > > > bounces at drupaled.net] On Behalf Of Dan Butcher
> > > > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:06 AM
> > > > To: teaching with drupal
> > > > Subject: Re: [teaching with drupal] funky table problem
> > > >
> > > > It looks the problem is with the sidebar on the right--if the
> > > > browser window
> > > > is too narrow, the sidebar positions itself over the center content
> > > > section.
> > > > I think this is a css issue. I'm going to play with it in cssedit
> > > > and see
> > > > what happens--
> > > >
> > > > Dan
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Bleck, Bradley
> > > > <BradB at spokanefalls.edu>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Could you please look at th below table of images I've put
> > > >> together. For
> > > >> some reason I can't get it to stay where it should. Depending upon
> > > >> the
> > > >> computer (not browser as near as I can tell), the images in the
> > > >> middle stay
> > > >> within the middle space. On other machines, such as my work
> > > >> desktop, the
> > > >> images push into the right column. The whole table is set at 100
> > > >> percent
> > > >> width. Do I need to do something with the embedded tables maybe?
> > > >> I'll send
> > > >> you the code if you want.
> > > >>
> > > >> http://biketoworkspokane.org/sponsors
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks for your thoughts on this because I thought I had it
> > > >> figured out,
> > > >> and I clearly don't (depending upon the machine).
> > > >>
> > > >> Bradley Bleck
> > > >> English Department
> > > >> Spokane Falls CC
> > > >> http://bleckblog.org
> > > >> http://biketoworkspokane.org
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