[Pro] HTML Box Behind Other Boxes Breaks Up

OK. This is a weird one to explain.

I’ve had this problem before and it works OK on one site, but not another, and not on anything I do now, and there’s no difference in the set ups.

The page background is a color. Then, an HTML text box is placed that has top rounded corners (or not, but that’s the style I need for this) and it has a border. Then, I place HTML text boxes and add text to them.

When I preview in a browser and increase text size, the text boxes grow to the right and down and eventually goes over the outside box and the border breaks.

Shouldn’t the box just expand downward and everything stay in the box?

This is all HTML, no CSS layered boxes.

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Then, I place HTML text boxes and add text to them.

To get the underlying box to expand the other text boxes must be inside it, not on top of it.


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This is all HTML, no CSS layered boxes.

Sorry, missed that bit. It should to a certain degree. Is the background color a box also? If so, is it a graphic or html box?


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Post a link to the page Robert

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Well, I can post a link to a site we had done already.

This is one way I get the problem:

http://printpodinc.com/aboutus.html

Just increase text size two or three times.


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Ok, that’s what I thought. This is symptomatic of table layouts. When Freeway publishes the html code it slices and dices all the objects into a table, but when you enlarge the text in a browser the slices get pushed apart breaking the graphics. If you use a graphic object as the background it will break apart, but if you use an html box set with a graphic background then the box will grow with the text, and will even reveal more of the set background graphic if it is bigger than the box it is applied to.


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So, if I have, say, a page with a gray page color, a white “box” with text and graphics over it, to prevent the white box from breaking apart I should use an HTML box set to graphic?

This site we did seems to work, but I can’t remember what I did!

http://bassshelterpets.org/aboutus.html


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So, if I have, say, a page with a gray page color, a white “box” with text and graphics over it, to prevent the white box from breaking apart I should use an HTML box set to graphic?

Nope. Don’t use a graphic box as a background. Use an html box with either a solid color applied to it, or with a graphic applied to it.


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OK. I’ll try that.

Thanks.

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OK. I tried that and it still doesn’t look like it works.

I literally just threw this together, but this is an idea of what happens.

http://k923.net/bg_test/test-page.html

Just keep bumping up the text size.


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Works exactly as it’s supposed to, but you can’t expect the rounded corners to always stay visible when the box grows with the text, which is what’s happening.


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Why does i work on this site:


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It appears the white frame is a “parent” division with all the other boxes as children inside of it.


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OK. Well, I’ve been doing something silly in my testing and I think I’ve solved the problem.

So…the reason none of this has been working is my fault!

Sheesh…

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So…the reason none of this has been working is my fault!

Welcome to the world of web page design. None of us are immune, so you aren’t alone.


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