Hi Nate,

Thanks for your answer.

Final question: How do you come up with the magic value for IE *width,
i.e.  "0.9759" ?

Howard


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Nate Koechley <natek@...> wrote:

Hey Howard,

1) Yes, this is the right place to ask about all things YUI, including the

CSS Foundation.

2) Base is a convenience file that puts back -- in a normalized way -- some

of the stuff that Reset takes away. You can use it anywhere you please, but

often it is redundant since it's unlikely that the font size it defines for

headers, for instance, is the exact size your project calls for.

Many people use Base as a "snippets library" to see, for example. how to put

bullets back on unordered list items.

Other people use Base when they want readable basic HTML. Sometimes I take

write or take notes in HTML format, and find it useful to add Base to the

page for a simple readable format.

3) This isn't supported feature, but because it's CSS you, of course, able

to overwrite the declarations. The "preset templates" use "negative margins"

as you can see here in a snippet from the file:

.yui-t1 .yui-b {float:left;width:12.30769em;*width:12.00em;}

.yui-t1 #yui-main .yui-b{margin-left:13.30769em;*margin-left:13.05em;}

The arithmetic for getting the width-in-ems is the same as when customizing

page width. That formula, as well as a reminder that you'll need to set one

width for non-IE then another width for IE is on this page:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/#custom_page_width

4) I'm not exactly sure what your fourth question is. Can you provide more

detail?

Thanks,

Nate

On Mar 4, 2008, at 6:44 AM, howard chen wrote:

Hello,

Some questions about YUI CSS,

1. Is this group (ydn-javascript) the right place for asking Grid CSS

questions? I can't find any other place...

2. When should base.css should be used? I think most sites (including

Yahoo) are not using base.css

3. Is it possible to have custom column width when using grids.css ?

E.g. in http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/, you can adjust

the width of doc, but not the columns...seems not that flexible

4. Should be progress with the grid building (nested DIV) until no

further DIV are being used?

Thanks.

Howard.