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Screen Resolution, Fluid Layouts, Restoring

I love making fluid layouts, but as we all know, one of its problems is that on larger screens, it can cause text to horizontally extend to uncomfortable lengths. I myself only have a moderate screen size, so I'm wondering this. Do people with gargantuan screens typically restore their window and set it to a more moderate width (multita...

CSS Fluid Layout?

Hi, I have a quick question about to how setup my basic fluid layout. I have one 40px high, and 100% wide header bar at the top, this looks great. Then i have a #left and #right div, each floated respectively. This looks cool. They both have height 100% which works great but the issue is the page then scrolls 40px down, because there is...

iPhone fluid simulation (like in Liquid app, using gravity etc)

How can i achieve Liquid app style fluid simulation? An I need LBM or SPH? I think SPH is too heavy for use on iPhone. But water in Liquid looks like SPH. Thank you! ...

elastic css framework with rails 3 and haml/sass ?

hello fellow programmers, i recently stumbled upon "elastic css" framework, which looks like a good thing to me. i tried blueprint already but i must say this seems to be an overkill for me (tried it with compass). so my question to you rails/xhtml webdevelopers out there: is the elastic css framework together with rails (3) and haml/sa...

How to create column width in CSS that expands with large images yet stays a default size for normally sized content?

I am creating an HTML5 web page with a one column layout. Basically, it is a forum thread with individual posts. I have specified in my CSS file the column to be 600px wide and centered it in the window using margin: 0 auto;. However, some images that are in the individual posts are larger than 600px and spill out of the column. I'd li...

How to get a CSS Layout like at elkaniho.com/

Hi, This website http://www.elkaniho.com/ has a CSS layout which is what i want, you see, the divs stack on top of each other, not on a precise grid, but just at the bottom and on the side. And when you re-size the browser, they all re-adjust perfectly? anyone know how i can get the same layout like at elkaniho.com or what type of lay...

Fluid Design bugs in ie7

Hey guys, I've created a dummy layout for my latest design, but when I resize the window in ie7 to check that the min-width works, it kicks the content area to below the sidebar, whereas in all other browsers (including ie6) it behaves exactly as it should do. Demo Link Can anyone see what the problem is that's causing this random co...

Powder Physics Games

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? I'm talking about applets like this http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/ I'm really interested in how they work, it seems more like fluid-dynamics than regular game physics. Does anyone know any open source variations, or any hints on how they might work? I think it would be real...

Canvas Animation

I'm making a graph script using canvas, i'm adding animation to a chart but i don't like the way that it's look, i use setInterval for X function adding height to a rectangle to make a bar chart for example, but i wanna an animation more fluid, is another way to do an animation? ...

New "hidden footer" works, but still overlaps content at the bottom of the screen.

Hi, I'm in the middle of designing http://www.vanessacaroline.com and in need of a bit of CSS assistance. If your current screen resolution doesn't make the problem obvious, try re-sizing the window so that the sample 2-column layout would push the footer--most simply demonstrated by grabbing your browser window's bottom edge, and drag...

Align a DIV to the right of a fixed width left bar

With a fluid layout, trying to have a 200px left bar and the right div should expand width wise. When some wide content goes in (say a table with a few columns), if the browser isn't wide enough, the right div gets pushed down below the left bar. How can I sort this? #container{ min-height:300px; } #leftBar{ width:200px; fl...

Safari Extension, Fluid App

I've written a simple extension for Safari that captures clicks on the RSS button in the address bar (calls to the feed:// protocol) and redirects to Google Reader instead of Safari's feed reader. If, however, the user has a Fluid app (one that opens Google Reader) set as their default feed reader the intercept doesn't work. Is there an...

CSS - positioning a background image on a fluid layout

Hi so the layout is like this: <div style="width: 100%;" class="container"> <div class="col1" style="width:30%;float:left;"> column 1 </div> <div class="col2" style="width:70%;float:left"> column 2 </div> </div> I want to make div.col1 a different color, so for this I'm using a vertically repeating background ima...

CSS liquid layouts with fixed padding/margins

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to incorporate pixel width paddings or margins to a fluid column design, without the need for extra html markup. To further illustrate, consider a simple html/css layout like this one: <style> .cont{width:500px;height:200px;border:1px solid black;} .col{float:left;} #foo{background-c...

Fluid image resizing in CSS (or JS?)

I'm trying to show a fairly large image on a page on my site. I want it to be re-sized dynamically depending on the user's resolution, so that it takes up the same percentage of screen on every monitor. How would I do that? ...

Making a Div fill Available Space in a Hybrid CSS Layout

Hello, I am creating a hybrid (fluid and fixed) css layout with 960.gs I can't get the div "header-center" to fill the space on the screen when the resolution is adjusted. "header-right" sticks to the right side, and "header-left" sticks to the left. I want the gap in between to be "filled" with "header-center". Does anyone know how to ...

resize textarea to fit in a fluid width layout with javascript

Hi. I have a fluid layout and i need a textarea to expand/reduce depending of the size of the parent container. In CSS it would look like this: textarea{ width: 100%; } But this doesn´t work with textareas. How can I do this with javascript? I can get the parent element width and them calculate the number of cols to fit that width b...

Sidebar height equal to Main Content area

Hi, my problem is that I want to have the color of the #promocion area (where the hands animation show) to be equal in height to my Main content area (Fluid, kinda new here and don't know how to do this). I try to do a height 100% in #promocion but doesn't work in IE... Check out my CSS & website just a sec... Thank you for your time....

Does anyone have a working example of fluid-animation code for the iPhone?

I'm looking for a sample iPhone app that includes animated fluids - for example, a fish tank, or glass of water. Is there one available somewhere? ...