Emdashes—Modern Times Between the Lines
The Basics:
About Emdashes | Email us
Ask the Librarians
Best of Emdashes: Hit Parade
A Web Comic: The Wavy Rule
Features & Columns:
Headline Shooter
On the Spot
Looked Into
Sempé Fi: Cover Art
Note to IE 6 users: Your browser makes emdashes look like Bette Davis under a bare bulb. For one thing, the sidebar gets pushed way down so you can't see my adorably formatted blogroll. Switch to Safari! Also, the logo should be centered at the top of the page. Email me if that's not how it appears on your browser; I'm trying to address these issues. Even better, tell me how to fix it. Believe me, I've tried...
Later: This seems like a good place to say that I've always intended emdashes to be at least 99 44/100 percent mistake-free, so if you ever see anything misspelled or misreported, unsightly code, shoddy grammar, questionable semicolon use, a bad link, or just something you don't much like the look of, for the love of Thurber, write in!
And later: I think I've fixed the sidebar problem, thanks to some new friends at Blogger Forums. Now, if Joe the commenter—or anyone else, for that matter—wants to report back with some Clearasil for those blemishes he spotted, that would really be smashing.
Comments
Well, yes, IE is indeed (crappy)^2, but you have to start with valid HTML. (You’ve got 339 errors.) If all you’re worried about is centring, margin-left: auto and margin-right: auto are conventional methods. You would alter your CSS to include that for the relevant HTML constructs. Said CSS file cannot be validated because your HTML is too much of a mess.Switching to Safari applies solely to Mac users, by the way, and is not a solution to the IE problem – it’s single-browser development rather than standards-compliant development. And if you were talking about IE/Mac all along, well, things get even more complicated.
Ha, 339 errors—that’s a lot. Suggestions for better CSS? Shoot me an email. I got that code from someone on the blogger forums; I was in a state of rage about the non-centered logo (which looks fine in most up-to-date browsers), and may well have put in some useless stuff. I don’t pretend to be a programmer, so fire away.
So try it in Firefox if you don’t have a Mac!I run into the same problems with the code on Beatrice as well, and I’m pretty sure it’s not all because of the occasional XHTML tag with capital letters instead of lowercase.