Yes, David you are right. I started with a template and was adapting it to my needs. I was not sure about the wrapper div and had left it for time being to see if I would need it.
> You have no CSS included in the CSS file for #wrapper, and you opened > and closed #wrapper in the wrong order. My guess is that this happened > to you because you marched to two different drums within the same > layout. You took only some of the corrections the first drummer offered, > and mixed those up [ literally ] with the corrections that the second > drummer offered. > > "Too many cooks spoil the broth." Thank you for this explanation Tim. It helps a lot. Kris > Overflow: hidden is a funny thing. If you apply overflow: hidden to the > body > tag, then if your page goes outside of the window, it won't scroll. > > But on anything else, in order for things to be hidden by overflow: > hidden, you > need to specify dimensions (height especially). > > Since you have overflow: hidden on your container, but no height, it makes > the > container expand to fit everything in it (including floats, which is nice > because those aren't usually contained, since they're out of the normal > flow). > > I believe that any non-auto overflow value will do this, but with > overflow: > scroll you get scrollbars, even if you don't need them. > > I haven't looked at your page, but my guess is that your footer was > floated, so > the background wasn't showing up because the footer was outside of your > container, but now you get the background because the float is inside the > container. > > ---Tim ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
