Comments on: Faux Columns :: The Next Generation

By: Sheriar Designs

Sheriar Designs — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:22:26 +0000

Carletto:

I think a flexible layout could work if you did away with the rounded corners and just used background colors and borders to delineate the boxes.

By: CARLETTO

CARLETTO — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:50:30 +0000

I want to know if it is possibile to have a box liquid, so to cover all the page. And the container width 98%.

By: Sheriar Designs

Sheriar Designs — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:30:44 +0000

I happened to revisit this post today and got curious about those non-clickable links. Took a look at the code and realized that that paragraphs holding the links were absolutely positioned, and therefore were spanning the entire width of the page, and sitting on top of each other. I gave the link-holding paragraphs on the left a z-index of 3, and the ones in the middle one of 2 … that seems to have solved it. ;)

By: Sheriar Designs

Sheriar Designs — Thu, 04 May 2006 15:48:03 +0000

Andy: Thanks for pointing that out. I see that too. I made this pre-1.5 and it worked great in FF then. Interesting …

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 04 May 2006 00:05:55 +0000

I love it. I am, however, experiencing a problem with the “more” links in boxes 1, 2, 4 and 5 in my Firefox 1.5 browser. Those links are not clickable.

My hunch is that the width of 100% is the cause of this, but I have no testing to back up my claim other than the fact that everything works in IE. If this is the case, might a set width of X pixels accomplish the same thing?

By: David Hucklesby

David Hucklesby — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:13:17 +0000

You may also be interested in this article that appeared a couple of weeks ago. Titled In search of the One True Layout it shows, among other things, how to make all columns appear to be the same height. But without the need for faux column style background images. None of your lovely rounded corners, though! Thanks for the insight. Enjoy. David.