Layout Elasticity/Screen Resolution

[edonian]

This post is related to my last one, only I’ve decided to follow Jon’s Em and Elastic Layouts with CSS article. Everything appears to be going along a bit smoothly, especially the “content” aka “div id: wrap“, it’s showing up perfectly on both of my computers/devices. But I’ve encountered another problem.

I have screen caps this time:

My layout on the laptop.
My layout on the desktop. See how the Nav table is not meeting the other end?

Everything is showing perfectly except for the Navigation table. So.. yeah, I really don’t understand how the content is staying where it is. Can someone explain to me how everything seems to work except for the Navigation? This resolution stuff is bumming me out and seems to be my biggest problem. Or I’m just not understanding how it works. D:

Here is the website link.

And the code:

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Layout Testing— Layout Elasticity


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[Mikefmi]

Its because your nav is not with in the wrap, and the margin left is pushing it from the left of the browser window, not the left of the wrap div. So when you view this on a larger resolution screen, you will get the overlapping effect because the wrap is horizontally aligned to the center of the browser window, and the nav is not within it. The margin left keeps the nav in its current position.

If you put the nav inside the wrap float the content to the left, and the nav to the right, it should start to work. Some more fiddling around may be required. I recommend reviewing Chris’s video tutorials on floats.

I hope I helped you!

[edonian]

Thanks for commenting! :)

I tried just as you suggested and it didn’t seem to work. I even tried what Chris had shown in his tutorial and it does move the navigation on the right, using this following code inside the “wrap”:

I added a blue colour just to see how far it moved and it’s too far in the corner of the content, leaving no space and no gray border . But I didn’t edited the actual CSS… The float didn’t work for the CSS.

[Mikefmi]

Remove the position: absolute, and the large margin from the nav, and add float: right. Now, this will stop the overlapping, but sizing and margins will have to be fixed to make sure everything fits the way you want it.

[Mikefmi]

Oh yeah, put the nav inside the wrap

[edonian]

Oh yay, it worked!

Thank you so much! :D

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