Elastic layout is a CSS design technique which allows the content dimensions to adjust to the text size that users set for their browser.
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Insert ellipsis (...) into HTML tag if content too wide
I have a webpage with an elastic layout that changes its width if the browser window is resized.
In this layout there are headlines (h2) that will have a variable length (actually being headlines from blogposts that I don't have control over).…

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jquery elastic animation doesn't complete
http://www.thebraproject.com/collection
If you slide the clothesline backwards every third item stops dead without completing the elastic animation. Can anyone see why that might be happening?
I'm using the AnythingSlider for jQuery to make it…

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Elastic lists in Javascript
I recently came across Elastic Lists & found them totally cool.
Is anyone aware of a javascript library which can give me elastic lists ?
If not , any tips on writing it myself too would be most welcomed. :)
Thanks,

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How do I layout a 3 pane window using wxPython?
I am trying to find a simple way to layout a 3 pane window using wxPython.
I want to have a tree list in the left pane, then have a right pane that is split into two - with an edit component in the top part and a grid component in the bottom…

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CSS: Centered, fluid left, fixed right, source ordered layout with min/max width
The titles says it. I want a 2-column CSS layout that:
is centered - the main content is centered on the page
has a fixed (pixel) right column width
has a fluid left column - uses up all available space minus the right column width
is source…

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How to make a DIV inherit it's "em" value from its parent's parent
We all know that the elastic layout "em" value for a given object is relative to the object's parent, e.g.:
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Creating a single elastic/liquid layout screen for Android
Is it possible create a liquid/elastic screen layout on Android that resizes to fit all screen sizes?
Currently I'm playing around with different layouts for small, medium, large, xlarge etc, but all I really need is a single layout that just…

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How to make a Elastic Vertical Layout?
I have a page that has 2 areas: header and content.
The header should be [of course] fixed at the top, and has no fixed height, and the content below it.
The point is that I need my content area to be scrolled if it overflows... Like: the header…

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A modern image gallery: fluid or elastic?
cross posted (as suggested) from ux.stackexchange
I am new to UX and IA and everything about interface and solution design. I need to do a simple image gallery based on grids. I read about responsive design and media queries.
Ok, in wide screen i…

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CSS Elastic textbox
My requirement is this.
I need a text box with a width of 5px. As I type something on it the width should be increased. Is it possible to do using CSS only without js
thnx

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How can I make these textfieds elastic?
It is possible to make the textfields on the left fill all the gray space to the right in a elastic way using CSS?

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un expand elastic plugin
I am using elastic plugin here is the jQuery i am using for it:
I have 5 textarea that i am using in code. So when user is at textarea1…

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Trouble with elastic layout
If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it!
I built an elastic website using ems, and for some reason, it still gets completely distorted when a user zooms in or out on their browser.
The link to the website that I am referring to is…

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Images and a dynamic layout
I'm working on a website with a em-based layout (so it can stretch and compress gracefully when users increase or decrease font size). This site has a header that should be displayed across all pages. I have a "header" div in all pages, and the…

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Column layout indexed by rows
I have the design as below:
There are 9 fields, eg. paragraphs, with the same width and unknown height (I can't simply float them).
I tried multicolumn layout, but needed to swap to elements order to 1-4-7-2-5-8-3-6-9.
'Working' HTML is…
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