@charset "iso-8859-1";

/*******************************************************************************
*  base.css : 2005-06-28 : Ruthsarian Layouts
* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*  base set of stylesheet rules needed to form the layout, and layout only.
*  color and fonts and such are not handled here.
*  side column widths are defined in EMs. see base_pixels.css for a pixel
*  version instead.
*******************************************************************************/

#pageWrapper
{
	margin: 0;
	width: auto;
	min-width: 500px;
}
#outerColumnContainer
{
	z-index: 1;
	border-color: #fff;	/* set default color to white. set the real
				   color inside colors.css */
	border-style: solid;
	border-width: 0 15em;	/* sets the width of the borders used to create
				   the left and right columns' background 
				   color. */
}
#innerColumnContainer
{
	z-index: 2;
	width: 100%;
}
* html #innerColumnContainer
{
	position: relative;	/* fix a render bug in IE under certain
				   conditions */
}
#contentColumn
{
	margin: 0 -1px;		/* without this, boxes stop floating next to 
				   each other */
	width: 100%;
}
#leftColumn, #rightColumn, #contentColumn
{
	float: left;
	position: relative;	/* IE has a display/render bug with non-floated 
				   block elements inside floated block elements. 
				   setting position:relative on the floating
				   element seems to resolve this. */
	z-index: 10;
	overflow: visible;	/* fix for IE italics bug */
}
#rightColumn
{
	float: right;		/* floating this right allows for the right
				   column block to appear before the content
				   column in the flow of the document. doing
				   this allows for any easy 3 column layout
				   in NN4.

				   There is certainly a lot, in terms of layout
				   'theory' about how the flow of the document
				   should be. I won't get into it here. */
	width: 15em;
	margin: 0 -15em 0 1px;	/* same as in the #leftColumn selector up 
				   above. */
}
#leftColumn
{
	width: 15em;
	margin: 0 1px 0 -15em;	/* like in the #contentColumn selector, without
				   the 1px margin on the opposite side of the 
				   box, boxes stop floating next to each 
				   other */
}
#footer
{
	position: relative;
}
#masthead h1
{
	display: inline;	/* personal preference to keep the header 
				   inline. you could just as easily change 
				   padding and margins to 0. */
}
.clear
{
	clear: both;
	padding-bottom: 1px;	/* for Gecko-based browsers */
	margin-bottom: -1px;	/* for Gecko-based browsers */
}
.hide, #oldBrowserNotice, .ieSixCharDupBug
{
	/* hide elements that CSS-targeted browsers shouldn't show */
	display: none !important;
}
#contentColumn
{
	border-width: 0;	/* reset value from that in the version 4 
				   stylesheet. this isn't in borders.css because
				   were you to create a print.css and not 
				   include borders.css, then the v4 border would
				   still remain when you print. */
}
* html #pageWrapper
{
	word-wrap: break-word;
}