HTML for KMail [Re: khtml and table widths]

[Rob Kaper]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 02:34:35PM +0200, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> >   .left { width: 4em; float: left;  }
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> That's a fixed width, won't look too good if font sizes are different. Suppose 
> the translation of 'From' takes 12 characters and 'To' still needs 2 
> characters. It's not that hard to come up with a font size where one div is 
> expanded to fit the overflow of the 12-char text, but the other div is your 
> proposed 4em wide. Needless to say that's several orders of magnitude more 
> ugly than using tables...
> 
> Trust me, if you want to layout this by structure instead of hardcoded metrics 
> this is really a 2x3 matrix, or in KHTML speak: table :-)

Um, "em" is not fixed. "pt" and "px" are, but em is relative to the
user/client specified font size.

Rob
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