let's see how this works.

[kaigou]

okay, slightly less grumpy layout style, now. hrmmm. got to say, I really don't care for css where there's eighty freaking titles and embeds on every level. whatever happened to the notion of simple and elegant code?

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[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Hrm, no idea... which browser are you using? I've only the means to test in FFX2 & Safari, so if it's wonky in MSIE I'll never know unless I get off my duff & test it on CP's PC. (Bleah.)

Yeah, Exp/Mixit is totally overdivved, and I'm dubious as to whether it's really worth it. (Sometimes I think that's done solely to make it very very hard to rip CSS from an existing layout, damn those bastards.) When I'm coding from scratch for myself, I find myself narrowing it down more and more until I have the absolute minimum of classes, and reusing as much as I can. Unfortunately that's pretty impossible with LJ, it seems (and let's not even get started on the layouts still using tables, ugh).

Any chance you can throw a screenshot my way, so I can get an idea of how it looks -- and what are your browser dimensions? I ended up doing this one at 960px layout, which is definitely wider than I'm comfortable with, but on a iMac screen, 700px wide is a freaking single newspaper column AAAUUUGHHH.

[branchandroot]

I'm using Camino (Gecko kernal, Quartz rendering), and I do keep my browser pretty narrow. I'd guess it's about 800px wide. From what I can see, the content is trying to go all the way to the right edge, and nipping underneath the right scrollbar, so I lose about ten pixels or 1em. This could be a Camino quirk, Camino does throw some strange ones every now and then. My favorite is having to set any text field at width:100% in order to keep it from overrunning the right side of its container. Definite augh material.

*wry* When I was doing expressive, I finally gave up and just made an empty style sheet with every single div on it, to fill in. I usually only used a third of them.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

GUH. Okay, try now? Narrowed it up a little, but sadly it's never going to work as a flexible width (my preference). Eh, well, at least it's closer to 950 than 1000... although there's no code for overflow, nor is there a min width setting, and I'm not sure I'm up to messing with it, if it's at least legible. (Erm, is it? Oi, the whackiness...)

[branchandroot]

Ah, yes, that did it! Very nice indeed.