[Techtalk] Fixing up live.linuxchix.org

[Akkana Peck]

Mary asked about layout of
http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/tmp/live.linuxchix.org/snapshot/

People testing it, be sure to try resizing your browser to
800 pixels wide or smaller: I don't think Mary mentioned it,
but that's when a lot of us were seeing problems.

Meryll Larkin writes:
> Yeah, I know what is causing it:
> 
> DIV tags.  I never use them.  There may be other things too and I don't have
> time to research them right now (as I'm studying for a test), but here is
> what I would do for starters:

My theory is that it's this, from the CSS:

div.livebody {
        position: absolute;
        right: 34ex;
        background-color: #ffffff;
}

The 'livebody' (which I think is the content area) is positioned only
according to its right edge, but its width is controlled by its
contents (in the case of Mary's snapshot, that's probably the
graph most of the way down the page under "Bike stats, and in NJ").
If that width is greater than where that right-position puts the
livebody, then the left side of it has to be off the screen.
Not because it's a div, but because it uses absolute positioning
in this way regardless of the window size.

I'm no CSS guru, so maybe someone better at CSS can tell me
whether I'm misinterpreting that.

	...Akkana