Re: Implementing two columns via CSS?

Rhino wrote:
> "Els" <els.aNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Rhino wrote:
>>
>>> Basically, I want to create two columns in my web pages, one for
>>> an index and one for everything else, and I want the pages to
>>> print correctly when the user clicks on the Print button. (I'm
>>> not sure if it is correct to say that I am trying to "float" a
>>> box since I'm not quite sure what that means.)
>>
>> It's not floated. You just put it left on the page, and positioned the
>> content absolute, where as if you had floated the navigation, there
>> would be no need for the absolute positioning of the content.
>>
> So, are you saying that the problem is that I didn't float when I should
> have?

No, I just explained the difference between floating and what you did.
Not saying it's bad or good or anything.

> I really don't know; I've heard that absolute positioning is Bad but I
> don't know if that means it's bad in every situation or just some
> situations; if it's sometimes okay, is it okay in this situation?

It's bad when you don't understand why it could be bad ;-)

> As I said in my reply to Sherm Pendley, I made some changes in the
> screen CSS that I forgot to echo in the print CSS; I've now
> corrected that situation. It works okay now in IE6 and Opera - the
> menu and all "decorative" images are suppressed - and the text is
> (mostly) black on white. But the menu hasn't disappeared in
> Firefox, which has me wondering....

Not in my Firefox. Menu is gone in print preview.
One problem I do see though, is that in Opera, the print preview shows
black on dark blue still. It's black on white in Firefox and IE.

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