MSIE5x users will see this as I intended. Opera5x and Netscape6x do not share my ideas of presentation!
I was wondering whether the Slantastic scheme could give slants on both sides at the same time. This shows that it can be done. But the HTML & CSS is not for the faint at heart!
Ahah, and looks not toooo bad. MSIE flows the text between the boundaries just dandy.
Some hints towards an explanation appear below
Initially Netscape didin't like me doing this ! Opera neither! Which put quite a damper on my enthusiasm.
Eric Meyer suggested interleaving the left and right slant elements. Now it works great!
Basic box showing colors chosen for explanation. Stacked to right and left, two adjacent border segments have zero thickness, while the other two (non-zero, adjacent) determine the slope
Now imagine changing the colors as follows - yellow and red go to white, and lime, green and blue go to soft blue. This would result a demo similar to the above, though with all slopes different.
("All slopes different" turns out to be most ugly and I can't imagine ever wanting to do it. But this shows how it can be done)
In the version for use (the slope divs) a small margin (recognizable as 0.5em) has been added on left or right because there were signs of text break up close to the slant edges. The text is being obscured by the border of the text boxes used to build the slant (see below). By the BORDERS?
I thought the container below was kind of cute?
Container with handles
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt
Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra
Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se
differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et
Sequana dividit. Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea
quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt,
minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad
effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis,
qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt. Qua
de causa Helvetii quoque reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt, quod
fere cotidianis proeliis cum Germanis contendunt, cum aut suis
finibus eos prohibent aut ipsi in eorum finibus bellum gerunt.
Eorum una, pars, quam Gallos obtinere dictum est, initium capit a
flumine Rhodano, continetur Garumna flumine, Oceano, finibus
Belgarum, attingit etiam ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum,
vergit ad septentriones.