Drawn Objects Don't resize when IE window is resized

[Guest]

TIA:

Drawn objects don't resize in the IE window when the window is resized. The
page only shows correctly when the IE window is maximized. How can I create
drawn objects and have them resize with the IE window?

Thanks,
Joel

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Joel,
You may not want to use drawn objects. They can be a no-no since
they don't render in other browsers. Pretty much though, an object is fixed
in size, just as if it were an image created in an image editor. They don't
scale themselves up automatically with IE. Images don't normally have a
percentage width, they are usually a fixed size. The excepsion is some
vector graphics, but vector graphics are more things such as Adobe
Illustrator and not web imaging. Bottom line, expect them to behave as if
they were a flattened image. Usualy instead of creating a design that
stretches with a browser most developers create a design that fits within a
certain size (such as placing a 760 pixel wide content table in the center
of the page to hold all the content) to ensure that it always provides the
same look no matter what the size of the browser window.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Ronx]

See www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/vml-graphics.htm for reasons to avoid
drawn objects.