Hi guys. I'm just wondering when I should use width and when I should use min-width. I thought there wasn't really a difference but after a day messing around with a site layout trying to get stuff to fit together... I gueass I was wrong.
Well, the main difference is that older browsers (IE6 and earlier I think) don't recognize the min-width feature. Try looking at this article too - http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/20...5/sidestepping - it describes how to overcome this.
Also min-width is fluid when the window size is larger than your set value, whereas width is simply fixed.
Last edited by timdenty; 05-29-2007 at 06:32 AM.
Tim Denton
Graphic Designer for web, multimedia and interactive in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Cheers. I have a site that's needing a complete redesign. I laid it out with absolutely positioned divs, and now I'm being asked to center it all. I guess that's what I get for cutting corners eh?
Lesson learned!
Just a thought - You could still use absolute positioning & have it center aligned. You would just have to have all your elements within a container which was relatively positioned with correct margins like this...
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
The child elements then take their position from the parent element (container), not the body.
Tim Denton
Graphic Designer for web, multimedia and interactive in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
using absolute positioning unless elements are to overlap is unnecessary and just makes the coding much more complex. You can't centre absolutely positioned elements because they are positioned relative to a single location, not multiple locations..
Really the layout I'm after can be put into 3 columns. It's not as tidy to code as I would have preferred but I've just gone with 3 floating columns and I just need to work out the positioning of things.
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