[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:16:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Ok, I've tried that. I've also used the container to give a >> background colour of white for the content area, where the >> main body background will be grey. This hasn't been entirely >> successful; I guess I have to set a fixed height, as not >> setting one meant the white background wasn't seen, and >> setting 100% as I have at present isn't really what I want?
Indeed. Setting 100% height causes the background to stop when you need to scroll up to see more text (which happens on smaller windows and with enlarged text. > This is still an issue for me. How did you colour your page before it was centered? The problem with absolute positioning, is that you are taking the elements out of the normal flow, thus leaving its parent virtually empty. And an empty container doesn't gain any height. > I could define 4 container > classes, one for each page, and set it to the appropriate > height for that page, but this isn't really a fix. Especially since the text will then 'fall out' of the bottom on enlarging the font-size. > I've done > lots of googling but I must be going wrong somehow because I > can't find a way to get the container to be at least the > length of the longest bit within it, but no longer. It would do that automagically if it weren't for the absolute positioning. >> Site is http://www.wdam.co.uk/clients/dynam/hh/ > > The other issues were caused by me being a complete lemon and > forgetting to add a CENTER tag in an important place, so please > ignore them! Sorry, I'm not entirely well and it's been a long > week! <shudder>CENTER tags??</shudder> (I'll ignore that bit too! ;-) ) -- Els http://locusmeus.com/ http://locusoptimus.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
