[teaching with drupal] funky table problem

Tue Apr 29 15:51:26 EDT 2008

That was easy. Thanks Dan, and everyone for putting up with my question. Now I'll know what to do next time, which means I've learned something yesterday and today!

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: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:24 AM
To: teaching with drupal
Subject: Re: [teaching with drupal] funky table problem

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
> > > >> stinfo/teaching_drupaled.net
> > > >>
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