On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh <e...@l-c-n.com> wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: > >> I am back with the same problem. David pointed out the issue, however >> I really don't understand WHY it's happening, and how to even things >> out. >> >> http://proof.mlinc.com/mlinc.com/testpages/6-10/index.html >> >> On this page, I want the footer copyright to hug the bottom of the >> container above it. In FF, it looks as desired (yes, i'll add a little >> space in later) but in Safari 4.0.5 (current release) it has a gap. >> Removing the box-shadow had no effect. What am I missing here? > > min-height is what you are missing. Or rather, the issue you see comes from > your usage of min-height on your wrapper. > And I'm not sure if Firefox, per current spec, is correct (the paragraph in > the latest spec is much more filled with ambiguity [1]). > The space you see in WebKit / Opera is the margin-bottom on the <p> that > contains 'Tagline'. In Gecko based browsers, that margin-bottom is contained > within the min-height wrapper (it cannot escape). WebKit allows the margin to > collapse through, creating the gap you see. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#collapsing-margins >> An element's own margins are adjoining if the 'min-height' property is zero, >> and it has neither top or bottom borders nor top or bottom padding, and it >> has a 'height' of either 0 or 'auto', and it does not contain a line box, >> and all of its in-flow children's margins (if any) are adjoining. > > There is a longish thread on www-style on the subject, starting here: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0081.html > http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-79 > > > Philippe > --- > Philippe Wittenbergh > http://l-c-n.com/ > >
ARG! Thank you Philippe! -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/