Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2006-01-06 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Arnold, Tim wrote: >Zoe, >It's your own fault for chastising us about not trimming our replies, in >your response to the "Browser Incompatibility" thread ;) > >http://offlead.com/stuff/floattest/index.html > > Ahh, but I *always* leave the URL in question in the thread, because its always rele

Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2006-01-06 Thread Arnold, Tim
Zoe, It's your own fault for chastising us about not trimming our replies, in your response to the "Browser Incompatibility" thread ;) http://offlead.com/stuff/floattest/index.html Cheers, Tim -Original Message- From: Zoe M. Gillenwater I don't know the page this was in reference to a

Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2006-01-05 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Liam ONeil wrote: >On 12/21/05 2:17 AM, "Zoe M. Gillenwater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > >>Since floats shrinkwrap their content when you leave a width off, you >>need to use width: 100%. But then you'd get a horizontal scrollbar. >>Unless, that is, you use negative margins. >> >> > >By

Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2006-01-05 Thread Liam ONeil
By setting your width to 99.9% as opposed to 100% you do not get the horizontal scrollbar Kind regards, Liam On 12/21/05 2:17 AM, "Zoe M. Gillenwater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since floats shrinkwrap their content when you leave a width off, you > need to use width: 100%. But then you'd ge

Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2005-12-20 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Jeniffer C. Johnson wrote: >>This happens because your content column is in the same "block >>formatting context" as the left floated sidebar. Thus, clears within >>the content column will also clear the left float. To stop this, you >>need to establish a new block formatting context for the con

Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2005-12-20 Thread Jeniffer C. Johnson
> > > > This happens because your content column is in the same "block > formatting context" as the left floated sidebar. Thus, clears within > the content column will also clear the left float. To stop this, you > need to establish a new block formatting context for the content > column. This

Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2005-12-20 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
CJ Larson wrote: >In the first url, http://offlead.com/stuff/floattest/index.html, >the H3 element and everything below it is supposed to be below the >floated thumbnails and the first paragraph of text. Sometimes there is >one thumb, sometimes two. Sometimes a short intro paragraph, sometimes a >

Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2005-12-20 Thread CJ Larson
-- original email (snipped) -- > I've run into this problem a few times lately, and have yet to figure out > how to resolve it. Here is the test page: > > http://offlead.com/stuff/floattest/index.html > Is there a way to clear the bottom of the thumbna

[css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2005-12-08 Thread Jeniffer C. Johnson
I've run into this problem a few times lately, and have yet to figure out how to resolve it. Here is the test page: http://offlead.com/stuff/floattest/index.html CSS is in the file. div#column is floated left of div#content. (These are nested within #page and #wrapper divs that are used to set