Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
The same happens when you use floats inside a container: if you don't
have something as the last item of the container to clear them, the
container will collapse.
That's not always true. If the container is also floated, it DOES expand
to contain child floats.
Hi guys
Sorry this is a WE05 specific question...
In Eric Meyer's presentation at WE05, he talked through the decision-making
process
of constructing AListApart. It was a good presentation, but lost me at one
point.
The challenge was:
* three columns of content
* no guarantee which would be
Donna Maurer wrote:
This is where I lost the point... I understand this is hard because you don't know which
column to use as a reference for the footer positioning. But couldn't you wrap the three
columns in an relatively positioned div and position the footer relative the the whole
thing?
Thanks, now I remember how it works! I have used positioning before (it is on
my
current site), but do find it a bit tricky to think around!
Feeling silly...
Donna
On 5 Oct 2005 at 11:23, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Donna Maurer wrote:
When you position something absolutely, you remove it
On Oct 5, 2005, at 3:06 AM, Donna Maurer wrote:
The challenge was:
* three columns of content
* no guarantee which would be longer
* vertical lines between them
* a footer that spanned the full width of the screen
As part of the decision, he was discussing whether he would use
absolute
