Well, no, unfortunately it doesn't, not in Firefox nor in IE.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe Wittenbergh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CSS-D" <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Cc: "Satyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:10 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] overflow:hidden doesn't seem to define block for float > > On May 28, 2008, at 1:51 AM, Satyam wrote: > >> have tried to use floats to arrange several items on the screen. >> One of >> the floats has a div and that one has floats inside. Though the div >> is set >> with overflow:hidden, one of the floats inside spills over. >> >> Actually, it does so in one of the layouts, I use two different >> layouts for >> the same HTML, one left to right, the other right to left, one does >> fine the >> other doesn't. Moreover, they behave quite differently in FF and IE. >> >> The issue is shown and explained here, including a table-based >> sample of >> what I want to achieve in the one that fails: >> >> http://www.satyam.com.ar/floats.html > > 1. you don't need to add the 'overflow:hidden to div > class='inputFields radio'. That block is floated, and thus establishes > a block formatting context per CSS2.1:9.4.1 – it will always contain > nested floats. > 2. The 'label' inside the above div drops below the radio button, > because the radio is wrapped in a div. you'd need to float > (float:right) both div.input and div.label. > > That should result in the display you want in modern borwsers, if I > understand it all correctly. > I haven't had a look at what IE does. > > > Philippe > --- > Philippe Wittenbergh > http://l-c-n.com/ > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1469 - Release Date: 27/05/2008 13:25 ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
