Hi!
A couple of months ago I posted a probelm relating to my menu at the then "beta-version" of my Website. The Website has now been online for quite a while at http://www.rwi.lu.se and I today (25 May) updated to the latest version of the menu. However, the problem is still there.
It only occurs in Netscape and only with a few pages, namely that the menu jumps one px to the left of the main table. No matter how strange is might sound, it seems that the "longer" the pages are, or more correctly, if the page is "long" enough, the problem does not occur. However, it still occurs in the short pages. Compare for instance:
http://www.rwi.lu.se/institute/work.shtml - where is does occur, with http://www.rwi.lu.se/index.shtml - where is does not occur.
I got a lot of help in my last thread (http://milonic.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=), where amonst other things, Kevin provided me with an "adjustor". However, while the adjostor adjusts every time, the page seems to recenter only when the shorter pages appear.
Please help me with this, or is in fact so that this problem is beyond help?
Thanks in advance,
David
P.S. Sorry for coming back with this old issue.
Netscape alignment issue - 1px offline
Yeah... sure [sob]. You're just a big brute...Andy wrote:Oh I'm sorry Kevin, didn't mean to upset you or your code
Actually, I was just kidding (which I'm sure you knew).I whipped it up in February, when David first brought the phenomenon to lght. You can see it in this thread. It was meant to bump the menu over, onresize and onload, to sort of re-center it if its own initial centering was off a bit compared to other centered conent in some browsers (in this case by 1px in NS7). But I actually intended it as a temporary measure, for David and anyone else experiencing the same sort of thing. You'll notice in that thread, that in my reply prior to the one where I posted the code, I mentioned thatWhere did that code come from anyway, what's it for?
So, I'm not really feeling abused. It's good if the menu can take care of this inernally... which I guess is now the case!kevin3442 wrote:I don't know if the behavior you see in NS7 results from the way NS7 centers things inherently, or if its the way the menu centers itself in NS7. Either way, Andy should be able to code around it pretty easily in the menu code (i.e, if it's NS7 and the available width is odd, subtract 1px from the left coordinate of the centered menu). Of course, that's easy for me to sit here and say, because I'm not the one who would have to make the change!
Meantime, I suppose there are some coding workarounds available to you. For example, you could implement an onresize event handler that sniffs the browser and if it's NS7 and the width is odd, then resize the window yourself to make it 1px narrower. Or, onresize if it's NS7 and the available width is odd (the window width is even), then reset the menu's position by 1px to the left. You could also call the same function onload, so that the adjustment is made if necessary when the page first loads.
Cheers,
Kevin