html frames question

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Peter wrote:

>
> On Mon, 22 May 2006 zleap-Tp5KeRqLOeNeoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org wrote:
>
>>  What about css, if I understand your question when a user changes the size
>>  of the browser window, the text adjusts to suit,
>>
>>  my site does this pretty well,  it's at www.zleap.net, you should be able
>>  to view the source code and also the code for the css (unless the
>>  permissions have been changed),
>>
>>  is this what you are looking for?
>
> Speaking of which, in your site, if I hover over the line 'Brother DCP310' 
> which is the longest, the line expands and contracts cyclically (the writing 
> moves out from under the pointer when it expands, then it contracts, etc).

    That's caused by the addition of a border in the stylesheet:

a:hover {
 	color: #00f;
 	background: fff;
 	border: 2px solid #fff;
 		}

> This causes the bottom of the selector to also move up and down. If this 
> selector would be a frame pane then the frame would constrain it. This is my 
> problem. I cannot tell the frame what size it will be without describing ALL 
> distances (including fonts etc) in pixels. That would be a bear.

     Specifiying absolute sizes is the most frequent cause of broken
     HTML pages.

> So far the only way I can solve it is to specify and iframe and hope for the 
> best if the contents are too small to fill it. html sucks.

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