Hi, is it ok to use <br> to size div box's prior to adding content?

Hi Keith,

I don't understand what you're asking. Why would a <br> tag resize a div??

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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Imar, once again thank you for replying. If you could check out my site again at http://tektown.net:86 id appreciate it if you could look at the source code. I found some very cool reads off of your earlier post on 2 and 3 column layouts(Thanks again) I am getting very good with the asp side as I am adding functionality to our knowledge base where I work in tieing forms into access (Great read by the way on db access in the book)However, I am just really struggling with the Layout part thus far but am getting it. Anyways, if you check the source code you will see how i sized my middle and right columns. Should I specify a Height in the #middle section for the column in the <Style> portion of the header?

If I am able to specify the height is there like a standard height you would use for different resolutions like you would consider when setting a width for content?

Right, I see. You mean the height.

Yeah, this is always a bit problematic. You can use the min-height property for that. Just set a <div> with a min-height and it will never get smaller than that.

Firefox and other browsers understand it, but IE doesn't. However, there are various hacks available to make IE use a min height. Google a bit for min-height and IE and you'll get some useful results.

I don't think there is a recommended height. With a table based design, it wasn't too hard to have one table fill the entire screen. With CSS this is a bit harder, although not impossible.

I am not sure why you're using all the absolute positioning stuff. If you do use i (for the three column layout maybe?) you can still wrap it in the <div> I showed you earlier. That way, the width of the entire page won't get as wide as the browser window, the way you have it now.

For more advanced CSS stuff, check out the CSS forums. Richard York posts a lot about CSS there, and he really knows his stuff. He's the author of Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, a great book about CSS that I can highly recommend.

I am glad you like the database access section of the book. Since that's so important in most web sites these days, it deserved a lot of room in a book about about Dreamweaver and ASP.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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