Bruce L Giles wrote:
> I experimented with several floated designs, but eventually gave up
> on the floats, because I needed additional floats (for a different
> purpose) in the main content area, and a "clear: all" below the
> floats in the main content area was causing the rest of the main
> content to drop below the bottom edge of the nav menus.
If you have problems with 'clearers' acting on elements outside their
own container, you may try the standard solutions that'll isolate that
container from the surroundings. That's 'block formatting context'[1]
for short, and 'Layout'[2] will produce the same "effect" in IE/win.
Some working solutions can be found as examples or linked in under
'containing floats' in the 'reverse engineering'[3] extension to the
'Layout' article. (Not all of them will establish 'block formatting
context', so compare with standards[1].)
Familiarity with such 'containment-solutions' will make a lot more of
the available multi-column layouts work. I use them all the time :-)
regards
Georg
[1]http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#q15
[2]http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html
[3]http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_example_01.html
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