yah it's almost like you don't need the float: left
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Peter H. <li...@artworkers.net> wrote:
> Georg, I'm intrigued by your example and have wanted that behaviour
> several times in the past and couldn't figure a way to achieve it without
> fixed height divs.
>
> But from your test page there's a bit of css that I don't understand:
>
> .floating {
> float-:left;
> width:140px;
> margin:1em .5em 0 0;
> border:1px dashed #ccc;
> display: inline-block;
> vertical-align: top;
> }
>
> In your float declaration, if one removes the hyphen after the word
> 'float' the page ceases to behave in the desired way.
>
> On the other hand, if 'float-' is a mistype (and doesn't exist as a
> declaration) then there is no float declaration and the whole thing depends
> on display: inline-block;
>
> Is that right?
>
> I wonder how far back inline-block is supported. When you say 'obsolete
> browsers', are you referring to IE6 and IE7?
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> > El 27/07/2012, a las 01:43, Georg escribió:
> >
> > ...an if you don't bother to test this old float-alternative at your
> end, here are a few examples.
> >
> > http://www.gunlaug.com/contents/test/test-floating-boxes.html
> > http://www.gunlaug.com/contents/test/test-floating-boxes-c.html
> > http://www.gunlaug.com/contents/test/test-floating-boxes-r.html
> >
> > I can't be bothered to debug obsolete browsers, so others will have to
> include the old fixes for those - if they like.
> >
> > regards
> > Georg
> >
>
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