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Gee!Last night I stayed up a bit too late trying to fix a CSS problem that I don't think can be fixed. I ended up having dreams about it, one of which I came across a solution to my problem. Of course now I can't remember this solution. I think it was bunk anyway, I believe it involved a little-known CSS attribute that I found in the docs during my dream state. I scoured the docs last night to no solution.
The problem is purely cosmetic but it's driving me nuts. In an effort to make the site a tad more purty I changed the link underlines from solid to dotted. This isn't an attribute that is something you can change, you have to fake it by turning off the underlining completely and setting border-bottom attribute on the anchor tag. The thing the drives me nuts is that the line just doesn't sit in the right place. You can really see it in the entries, like here. The dotted line looks closer to the text directly underneath it. There doesn't seem to be any way to set the vertical alignment of text by itself in an anchor box. And no, vertical-align, despite looking promising, only aligns one box against another.
If anyone knows a solution to this problem please let me know so I can finally rest easy.
In other news I got the e-mail notifications to work. It was as easy as I thought, just one line. PHP really does its thing well.
I've been feeling a bit better but still not 100%. I did do quite a bit of packing today but now I'm running out of boxes. I'm finding quite a few things from the past that I had squirreled away and forgotten about and it's so interesting remembering where they came from. I seem to be unable to throw out postcards.
Jan 13, 10:21 Update: As a sorta fix I've fiddled with the fonts. I think it looks pretty good but I'm sure I'll play with it more.