I seem to be almost a year behind on this (11 months at least), but I
just spotted it this morning in an ALA article.
Can someone please please please explain it to me (in very simple terms)?
If children of a container are floated, as far as I understand, they are
then taken out of normal flow and the container collapses.
Now, if overflow:hidden is applied to the parent container, then the
height of the parent container is adjusted to include the heights of the
floated children.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225/visudet.html#q22
This is where I get lost: I understand overflow to describe what should
happen to children/content that 'overflows' the parent container.
Since the floats are out of normal flow, how come overflow applies at
all? Have I misunderstood the basic concept of floats or overflow or
something else altogether?
Are the children now back into normal flow or has the container been
taken out of normal flow or what is going on?
Confusedly,
Kat
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