[Plone-UI] verticle position and height of portal-column-one, -content and -two

Jeanie Schwenk jeanie.schwenk at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 03:04:59 UTC 2009


Apologies on taking so long to post back.

It was entirely a CSS issue.  It was a combination of .visualPadding,
margins and padding.  Thank you so much as I now the get the same (desired)
behavior in both Firefox and IE.

In the future, I will include more urls.

Regards,

Jeanie


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Veda Williams <veda at onenw.org> wrote:

> Hi Jeanie,
>
> On 7/29/09 1:20 PM, "Jeanie" <jeanie.schwenk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > This display issue is not browser specific - I'm getting the same
> behavior in
> > both IE and Firefox.
> >
> > I'm using the latest firebug and can see that portal-column-one,
> > portal-column-content and portal-column-two are at the same top position.
> > However, when they display, they are at three different heights.  I've
> tried
> > changing the margins and even the padding and it is not working.  The
> > website is still in development:  jschwenk.webfactional.com.
>
> I'm not 100% sure I follow, but here goes...
>
> Try looking at #portal-column-one .visualPadding  and #portal-column-two
> .visualPadding. You probably only want padding settings on these, not
> margins as well. I tend to apply margin settings to the parent classes,
> e.g.
> #portal-column-one and #portal-column-two.
>
> >
> > When I look at the margins (purple in firebug), the top of the
> > portal-column-content and portal-column-two are the same but they display
> at
> > different heights.  I want them to display at the same height.
>
> Do you mean the height of the columns should be the same, or are you saying
> that the tops of the two columns need to line up horizontally? If you mean
> the latter, removing the margin setting from #portal-column-one
> .visualPadding should solve this problem.
>
> >
> > I also want to have a small (4 pixels or so) margin at the bottom between
> > the bottom of the portals and the little brown line at the bottom so it
> > looks consistent on each page.  The portal-column-content bottom edge
> > displays differently depending on which page is loaded.  Sometimes it's
> > butted up against the small brown line, other times it's 30 pixels high
> and
> > other times there's a HUGE gap between the end of the content and the
> line
> > at the bottom.
>
> Can you give some sample URLs here?
>
> If I read you right, the brown line at the bottom is set to display
> directly
> above the #portal-footer, so if there isn't much content in
> #portal-column-content, the brown line will appear just below the longest
> column (often the left column).
>
> >
> > This is driving me nuts.  The theming book I ordered hasn't arrived yet
> but
> > I've been reading the docs on plone.org.  Maybe I'm not searching for
> the
> > right thing as I'm coming up empty-handed and I'm sure others have run
> into
> > this.  It's probably something simple.  Can anyone point me in the
> correct
> > direction?
>
> If you can provide the URLs, it'll be easier to tell if this is just a CSS
> issue or if it's more of a conceptual issue.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Veda
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Jeanie
>
>
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