> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Serge Krul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > What is the best way of forcing a container box enclose its floats? > > > > From my experience the best way is to use the "easy > clearing<http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html> " > > technique. It's far more stable than overflow:auto, and overflow:hidden is > > not suitable in most cases (for example you wouldn't want your horizontal > > menu to hide some of your list items when text size is increased).
fwiw, I don't agree. The problem with the easy clearing method is that it styles the element differently depending on browsers. To understand the issue, check example #2 (The .clearfix method) on my demo page: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/block-formatting_context/newBFC.asp -- Regards, Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.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/
