L. Robinson wrote: > If overflow: auto or hidden is used merely to clear an element, what > prevents the occasional chopping off of needed data (hidden) or the > addition of nasty little scroll bars everywhere (auto) where one > might not want them? > > K. What is it I don't understand? :)
Probably the part about 'Block formatting contexts'... <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#q15> It does work well in many cases, as long as the container we declare 'overflow: hidden/auto' on also has a 'height: auto' (which is default). Then the container will just grow as tall as it needs to be in order to completely enclose/contain the floating elements, and the result is just fine. That is: unless some element (float or otherwise) is styled to appear partly or completely outside the edge of the container. The overflow-property will then cut off the overshooting part of such an element, and the result will be just as you described. So, the overflow-property is a useful solution for containing floats in some cases, but not in others. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
