On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Scott Sauyet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Francis wrote: > > Can anybody figure out why the quote on this page overlaps the footer > near > > the bottom right-hand side? > > http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2008/12017945171.html > > > > It's obviously not meant to do this and doesn't occur when the screen is > > really wide. > > Are you sure? It only happens for me when the screen is wide enough. Apologies, my mistake, you are correct. > > > The reason is that the right-hand column (id:" news-pic-quote-column") > is absolutely positioned. That means that it is removed from the > document flow. The "clear: both" on the footer doesn't apply to it. > > I'm not sure of the best solution, and don't have time to investigate > the whole layout, but you might want to look at some floating solutions. Ok, thanks, that does seem to make sense (to me as an amateur CSS enthusiast!) I should have pointed out that the site belongs to my old university and I tend to use it quite a lot. And because I like to dabble in css/web design, I thought this was an unusual and interesting problem. Thanks for all replies. Thom > > > -- Scott > -- Regards Thom ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
