Thanks, Georg! So, I did what you indicated. I went and removed all a:p from the style sheet. Really messed with my layout. i added your short bit of code to the top and it helped marginally. so, i am still at a loss. Demo page:
http://ajputnam.com.sky/discography and one of the original pages I put up as example: http://ajputnam.com/sky/ontour what did I do wrong? thanks! Amy On Feb 13, 2008 10:50 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AJ Putnam wrote: > > http://ajputnam.com/sky/ontour > > > > as you can see, the content table just sort of hangs over the lower > > edge. > > 1: delete _all_ instances of 'position: absolute', or else you'll get > nowhere. > Absolute positioned elements are treated as if they do not take up any > space, so the expansion you're expecting can't take place. 'A:P' also > deactivates 'float', so you'll get no float-behavior. > > 2: use margins to push elements into place. > > 3: don't restrict height on elements that are supposed to expand with > content, and clear below floats. > > Pity IE7 doesn't support CSS table, or else you could have started here... > > <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/ajp/test_08_0213.html> > > ...and just trimmed some margins. > > I've used... > > * {margin-top: 0!important; position: static!important;} > div {display: table;} > > ...to override the problematic parts of your styles. That works fine in > Firefox, Opera, and even IE6, but in order to make it work as intended > across browser-land you'll have to go through your stylesheet and > correct it line by line. > > BTW: you don't need a layout table, since regular elements - divs - will > also expand with content when height is unrestricted. The layout table > does no real harm though. > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
