Stylesheets - how does www.windowsupdate.com's layout works?

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how does www.windowsupdate.com's layout works?

Gianni Rondinini

2005-09-12, 7:22 am

first of all, i hope not to be offtopic: since there is both html and
css and tables, then i'm posting it on two newsgroups --without
crossposting this--, ciwas and ciwah.

the layout of windowsupdate.com is exactly the layout i'd like to
obtain: there are no frames --then it's indexable by spiders--, but
you have a fixed and invariable "frame" all around a main area which
scrolls its content. i have read several times the source html for
that page --and downloaded all the css's and js's--, but wasn't able
to understand how it works.

can you please help me understanding how to reproduce it?
it seems to me a table which occupies 100% of work area, has some
fixed size cells and in the "main" cell it contains a div which
scrolls its content. but i'm able to go no further than this and can't
understand how to go on.

i'd appreciate any help.

thanks in advance,
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Stan Brown

2005-09-12, 11:19 pm

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:55:22 +0200 in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Gianni Rondinini favored
us with...
> first of all, i hope not to be offtopic: since there is both html and
> css and tables, then i'm posting it on two newsgroups --without
> crossposting this--, ciwas and ciwah.

What is the accepted way to share a message across multiple
newsgroups? <http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html>

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Gianni Rondinini

2005-09-14, 7:25 am

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:36:23 -0700, Jim Moe
<jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@sohnen-moe.com> wrote:

> It uses frames.

i'll check it again.
i couldn't find any <frame/frameset> tag. i only saw an iframe.

if it uses frames, then it's not what i'm trying to do.
thanks for your help.

>with CSS. See
><http://benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/cs...es/spider1.html>

i have seen this page and another one i liked much, that is
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tu...sson/boxes.html

but there seems not to be a way to have a *fixed* frame --both with
firefox and ie6+-- and a scrolling "main" area.

i have improved
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Gianni Rondinini (30, tanti, RA)
VBR - Vero Birro Romagnolo
Hai capito, scelf?