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curious monkey Posts: 555 Joined: 4/28/2006 From: The lower handle of US Status: offline	stupid question - 5/15/2006 13:58:47 Ok I am trying to teach myself CSS using tutorials on the web and reading forums (I have yet to buy a book, although I think I'm going to get The Zen of CSS design). Anyway, I see people making comments about "liquid designs". I can only infer that it means that it resizes when the window resizes. Am I way off base or just thinking that there is more to it? It is almost embarrassing to have to ask but I cannot find the answer. Thank you in advance, The Curious One _____________________________ I have a ringing in my head and no one to help me answer it


Tailslide Posts: 6296 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: stupid question - 5/15/2006 14:18:10 No - you're spot on. Liquid designs have percentages for layout sizing and so expand and contract with the browser window. Elastic designs expand and contract with font-sizing. Jello designs make a big mess on the keyboard! _____________________________ "My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it" Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Blood, Sweat & Rust - A Land Rover restoration project (in reply to curious monkey)


womble Posts: 5702 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: stupid question - 5/15/2006 14:27:39 Not a silly question at all. Yes, you're right - liquid designs (also known as fluid designs) resize to fit the browser window. Measurements for page elements are usually in %, so for example if you had a two column design you might set the width for your left column as 40% and your right column as 59% (I usually shave a % of two off one of the columns to allow for border/margin differences between browsers), so whatever the window size, the left column would take up 40% of the width of the screen and the right 59%. You can also have semi-fluid designs where one or more columns have a fixed width in a multi-column layout - you'd have a fixed width column specified in px or ems or whatever, and fluid part in % which again would fill the specified percentage of the page. There's a lot of info out there on css layouts. The W3Schools is always a good place to start. There are also a lot of tools out there to help with layouts - this is one I found the other day that does 2/3 column layouts that's quite good - http://www.csscreator.com/version2/pagelayout.php - pick your doctype, header, footer, number of columns and widths and it produces the basic html and css for the design and is then something you can build on. <edit>Grrr! Beaten by Tail again! </edit> _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ ~~ Erase hate. Practice love. ~~ (in reply to curious monkey)


curious monkey Posts: 555 Joined: 4/28/2006 From: The lower handle of US Status: offline	RE: stupid question - 5/15/2006 14:38:08 I was on the right track!!!! now to learn and implement it. as you can see on my horrilbe first try (www.treationsinc.com) i guess I tried. there's so much wrong with that site I'm thinking about starting all over. quote: original: Womble <edit>Grrr! Beaten by Tail again! </edit> ha. but both are valuable comments. (in reply to womble)