Re: [css-d] Container Height Issue on Dynamic Page

2008-01-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Akins wrote: > Wow - that's perfect! I had to put the declaration on both of the > floated divs, not just one, in order for it to be fixed in my IE6. > But that's swell! Thanks. :-) I had the fix on both floats in my example too - they're in the CSS, but forgot to mention the second one i

Re: [css-d] Container Height Issue on Dynamic Page

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Akins
Wow - that's perfect! I had to put the declaration on both of the floated divs, not just one, in order for it to be fixed in my IE6. But that's swell! Thanks. :-) So, in order to turn this into a learning process, had these divs had margins on more than just the one side, would they all have g

Re: [css-d] Container Height Issue on Dynamic Page

2008-01-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Akins wrote: > Nothing, I guess. But now that I've put the floats in, I'm getting no > spacing between #stories and #nav on IE6. Firefox and Safari show > it correctly (or as intended anyway). This page actually started > being built over a year ago, and I had tried floats. Now I rememb

Re: [css-d] Container Height Issue on Dynamic Page

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Akins
Nothing, I guess. But now that I've put the floats in, I'm getting no spacing between #stories and #nav on IE6. Firefox and Safari show it correctly (or as intended anyway). This page actually started being built over a year ago, and I had tried floats. Now I remember why I then went to position

Re: [css-d] Container Height Issue on Dynamic Page

2008-01-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Akins wrote: > Is there a way to keep my html ordered the way it is, and NOT use > floats, and still end up with a #container that contains BOTH of the > things inside it? Don't think so - if the appearance should otherwise stay intact. What's wrong with using floats in your case? Turns ou

Re: [css-d] Container Height Issue on Dynamic Page

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Akins
Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately, declaring height:100% doesn't work for me. I tried putting it on body, #stories, #container and nothing. I've realized that it's my #nav that's absolutely positioned within the #container that is the problem apparently. But I'm not sure what to do to fix it.

Re: [css-d] Container Height Issue on Dynamic Page

2008-01-15 Thread Big Moxy
Chris, You need a height:100% in several places. My css definitions start with this. Of course, font, background, etc varies by site. For an example go to www.pro-web-marketing.com and click on one of the top nav bar links. You will see that the right menu extends to the bottom of the content

[css-d] Container Height Issue on Dynamic Page

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Akins
Hello all experts and novices. :-) Page with issue and CSS: http://www.springfieldmo.gov/cityconnect/getPost.jsp?entryid=6 http://www.springfieldmo.gov/css/cityconnect.css Having worked through many CSS issues thinking my blog-type site was ready I just discovered today that on pages with short