[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20090507-hqm-x Summary: fix for DHTML IE: Context menus too wide

[Henry Minsky]

This however seems to work in IE7 to keep the horizontal rule to the width
of the text
<div id="lzcontextmenuie"  style="float:left">
foo
<div class="separator"></div>
bar
</div>




On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Henry Minsky <henry.minsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> That works in every browser except for IE7 :-(
>
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:41 PM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Believe it or not, I think you can say:
>>
>>  <div style="display: table-cell">
>>
>> to get all the kludgesXXXXXXXfeatures of a table cell's layout in a plain
>> div.  Why would you want to do this?  Because the equivalent HTML tag may
>> have other default CSS properties associated with it that you do not want on
>> your div (like borders or margins, etc.)
>>
>>
>> On 2009-05-07, at 14:30EDT, Max Carlson wrote:
>>
>>  Ah right.  Fair enough...
>>>
>>> Henry Minsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> With a fixed width div, how would I decide what the width of the div is?
>>>> I'd need to measure the text manually of all the
>>>> captions? On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Max Carlson <
>>>> max at laszlosystems.com <mailto:max at laszlosystems.com>> wrote:
>>>>   Would enclosing in a div with a fixed width do the job?  Otherwise,
>>>>   approved!
>>>>   Henry Minsky wrote:
>>>>       Change 20090507-hqm-x by hqm at badtzmaru.home on 2009-05-07
>>>>       12:51:20 EDT
>>>>          in /Users/hqm/openlaszlo/trunk-diamond
>>>>          for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk
>>>>       Summary: fix for  DHTML IE: Context menus too wide
>>>>       New Features:
>>>>       Bugs Fixed: LPP-8137
>>>>       Technical Reviewer: max
>>>>       QA Reviewer: andre
>>>>       Doc Reviewer: (pending)
>>>>       Documentation:
>>>>       Release Notes:
>>>>       Details:
>>>>       + enclose DHTML context menu within a <table>, to prevent the
>>>>       <hr> from expanding to
>>>>       the width of the canvas in IE7.
>>>>       Tests:
>>>>       tested in FF/OSX, and IE7/WINXP  DHTML
>>>>       test/contextmenu/ie7.lzx
>>>>       Files:
>>>>       A      test/contextmenu/ie7.lzx
>>>>       M      WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/dhtml/LzContextMenuKernel.lzs
>>>>       Changeset:
>>>>       http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20090507-hqm-x.tar
>>>>   --     Regards,
>>>>   Max Carlson
>>>>   OpenLaszlo.org
>>>> --
>>>> Henry Minsky
>>>> Software Architect
>>>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Max Carlson
>>> OpenLaszlo.org
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>
>
>


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Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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