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min-width and Internet Explorer (7.0?)
Submitted by Steffen on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 12:52
There are lots of fixes for the lack of support of min-width in Internet Explorer <=6.0. I recently added a pure CSS solution to the theme of my blog (see here), which works fine in strict mode. You simply cannot have a liquid design without some sort of min-width... And all those JavaScript solutions are simply too slow, eat too much bandwidth (if you have a 384 kBit/s uplink), and have response times on window resizes that are unacceptable.
But then again, IE 7.0 RC2 still does not support min-width and I read that the layout engine will not be changed for the final version - which means that all those ugly workarounds will be required for some more years... Unless others are successful, who say that they are working hard on the feature to be included in the final. So I guess, we'll just wait and see ;-).
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in the html:
<div id="text" class="column">
<p>Text</p>
<img src="images/clear.gif" width="493px" height="1" alt="" />
</div>
my fix for min-width in ie: in the
my fix for min-width in ie:
in the css:
* html #text
{
padding: 10px;
right: 12%;
}
* html #text p
{
width: 100%;
}
#text
{
position: absolute;
top: 1%;
left: 33%;
right: 12%;
min-width: 500px;
background: white url("images/bg.gif") repeat-y -18px 0;
padding: 0 10px 10px 12px;
}
in the html:
About Australia's Electronic Bookstore
Text
BTW the repeat-y background image and extra 2px left padding was my solution to having evenly matched left hand borders
[...] I’ve spent some grueling hours
[...] I’ve spent some grueling hours getting the WP-Andreas09 theme ported to Coppermine but I managed to get through it. I was on a roll and thought after an hour I would be finished and then I opened it in Internet Explorer and my jaw dropped. Shrinking the window down causes all kinds of havoc with the main content and right sidebar layout. Basically this is caused by the stupidity of IE to understand a concept as simple a “min-width”. You have to play all kinds of silly css games to get it to work and in the end, it’s still not as smooth as Firefox. I also read that IE 7.0 RC2 still does not support min-width so here we go again with yet another version of crap. [...]