Mark Fredrickson wrote:

Will this suffer from the classic drupal.css ".clear" problem (that is, content "jumps" below the side bars when a clear: all attribute is applied)? I've taken to removing drupal.css for this reason.

Alternatively, is there a solid work around for that problem (tables need not apply)?

I'm working on a contributed theme that makes use of the following layout. I've found this layout to be the most *robust*. And seeing as how I have deadlines, am under payed, and not doing the conference circuits as a CSS guru yet, I'm not really too concerned about the 3 non-semantic divs. I'm concered about having a well ordered, table free layout that has a footer, can expand and contract with drupal's oddities, works on the rest of the world's web browsers, and has min-max width support for IE as well as firefox.

http://www.webproducer.at/flexible-layout

What really attracts me about this layout (which Kieran's like may not do as gracefully, but I need to test that...) is that using PHP to calculate the sidebars, I can remove, and add columns on both or all sides cleanly by setting seperate classes for the #columns div.

Generally, I've found that most of the overriding of drupal.css can be done by zeroing in more specifically on the elements. Example:

.block .content .item-list li, .block .content .menu li { padding:0; margin:0; list-style-type:none; list-style-image:none; }

removes the drupal.css formatting for menus and item lists in blocks in a box_grey-like theme. drupal.css specifies ".item-list li", so you can override it by getting more specific: e.g. " #content .sidebar .block .item-list li" if you were crazy. Similarly, the .clear (which I find necessary given the floats for logo, and navigation that are often in the header) could theoretically be overriden by specifying #header br.clear {clear:none;}

When in doubt, use the ID -- as they have precedence over classes.

Best, Nick Lewis http://nicklewis.smartcampaigns.com

-Mark Fredrickson

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From: Kieran Lal kieran@civicspacelabs.org Reply-To: A list for theme developers themes@drupal.org Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:04:21 -0800 To: "themes@drupal.org theme developers" themes@drupal.org Subject: [themes] Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation, a liquid center for the real substance.

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