Re: DOCBOOK: Suggestion on navtowith, please

[damar thapa <damar at netvigator dot com>]

Hi,

I actually had replaced the original menu image with the image shorter 
in length than the original, and noticed that the level of NOV length 
had gone to that length size when I chose at least one menu item.  
After changing the size of the menu to 220 x 35, the most of the 
browsers are doing fine (except netscape4.77, in which choosing the 
first menu item, rather makes the length of the NAV longer than 220).

I do not understand the internal link of this though.

Damar


Bob Stayton wrote:

> I believe width values in HTML <table> and <td>
> permit either % or no unit, and no unit is taken 
> to mean pixels.
>
> Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
> Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
> Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
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>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:06:29PM +0800, damar@netvigator.com wrote:
>  
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > In the comment of novtowidth, it is specifically said that it is in pixel.  
> > And in <xsl:attribute-set name="table.properties">, replacing 100% with
> > 749 for the value of name="width" seems like interpreted as 749 pixel. 
> > Further comments on this would be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Damar  
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Bob Stayton wrote:
> >
> >    
> > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:20:49PM +0800, damar thapa wrote:
> > >      
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > This list was great help to me in creating my home page; thanks to all.
> > > >
> > > > One more issue came up with my site ie the width of the side menu. 
> > > > Seeing <xsl:param name="navtowidth">220</xsl:param> in param.xsl, I 
> > > > inserted a image of 220 pixel long at the left side of the header to 
> > > > align its edge (image's edge) with the edge of left menu beneath it. It 
> > > > worked fine, but not for all menu items. When I choose some items, the 
> > > > length of navtowidth goes crazy  -- choosing some item produces more 
> > > > than 220, while others  shorter than that. Some browsers are better than 
> > > > others (Mozilla-1.0 is better than netscape4.77, for example).
> > > >
> > > > Can some one on the list point me to right direction, please?  Is it 
> > > > browser issue? CSS  issue or some thing I have to do on xsl?
> > > >        
> > > The tabular pages use an HTML table to lay out the webpages
> > > as a one-row two-column table.  The left column is the
> > > navigational list, and the rest of the webpage content is
> > > in the right column.  The navtocwidth value is inserted as
> > > a 'width' attribute in the left table cell element <TD>.
> > > Since HTML tables are dynamically formatted, I think the
> > > browser uses 'width' as a suggestion, rather than a fixed
> > > value.  The other content can affect the final width of
> > > columns as they are drawn on the screen.  And as you found,
> > > different browsers handle it differently.  I don't know
> > > how you can control a column width absolutely in HTML
> > > for all browsers.
> > >
> > >
> > > Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
> > > Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
> > > Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
> > > The SCO Group                               fax:   (831) 429-1887
> > >                                            email: bobs@sco.com
> > >
> > >
> > >      
>