[Pro] Problems in positioning vertical line

Hi folks,

I’ve a vertical line extending as a divider down the page to the left of some text:

www.jimcwilson.com/chronology.html

This displays differently in the ‘page’ setting of Freeway and in Safari. In the former, it extends several centimetres down past the end of the text; in Safari, it extends to the bottom of the text; in Explorer it only reaches to 2cm or so above the bottom of the text. Why this discrepancy? Any advice gratefully received.

Gerry


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How did you create this line?

Can we see it online somewhere.

The way to keep the line the same height of the text is to add the line as a border to the side of the HTML container that holds the text and remove the height attribute - that way it will grow/shrink with the height of the text.

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Thanks David – been offline hence this slightly delayed response. I created the line by drawing it as a graphic box 1px wide down the side of the text. I’ll do what you suggest and see how that works. Many thanks for that.

I now have another problem. I have several HTML text boxes on a page. They look fine at the default viewing size, but when I resize the text in the browser, they all begin overlapping. Is there an easy way to fix this? Any help greatly appreciated. The page with the issue is here:

www.jimcwilson.com/about.html

Gerry


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Ah, I think I may have sorted it, using this thread:

http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/13078#m_13078

I just unticked the ‘layer’ setting for each text box and readjusted the positioning and it seems fine when the text size in the browser is resized.

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The RPL action can help with this too. But not with an unlayered layout.

Essentially it turns a standard layout into an inline (commonly referred to as box model) layout.

This gives the benefits of CSS positioning without the complicated structure.

David


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