RE: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-08-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Nathan de Vries > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:11 AM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height > > On 18/07/2008, at

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-08-11 Thread Nathan de Vries
On 18/07/2008, at 7:45 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: Of course, there are several other ways to enclose floats that do not require that extra DIV. I would have thought that the method described by PIE [1] would be the only sane way to do this. -- Nathan de Vries [1] http://www.positionisevery

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-18 Thread David Hucklesby
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Sorry folks, but am I missing something here? Why do you think that it is important to stuff something invisible inside an (otherwise) empty div? For some reason, Internet Explorer thinks an empty DIV - "" - contains text, and may create a

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-18 Thread kevin mcmonagle
kevin mcmonagle Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:33 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height its used as a shim. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry folks, but am I missing something here? Why do you think that it is important to stuff

RE: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-18 Thread michael.brockington
AM >To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org >Subject: Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height > >its used as a shim. > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Sorry folks, but am I missing something here? >> Why do you think that it is important to stuff something

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-18 Thread kevin mcmonagle
its used as a shim. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry folks, but am I missing something here? Why do you think that it is important to stuff something invisible inside an (otherwise) empty div? Regards, Mike *** List Guide

RE: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-18 Thread michael.brockington
day, July 17, 2008 10:46 PM >To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org >Subject: Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height > >> Andrew Newman wrote re: using a DIV to enclose floats: >> >>> a little more valid / semantic >>> >>> div.clearer {

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-17 Thread David Hucklesby
> Andrew Newman wrote re: using a DIV to enclose floats: > >> a little more valid / semantic >> >> div.clearer {clear: both; line-height: 0; height: 0;} >> >>   >> Of course, that will create an extra vertical space in the layout. If that space is unwanted, you could alternatively use this:

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-17 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Andrew Newman wrote: a little more valid / semantic div.clearer {clear: both; line-height: 0; height: 0;}   On 17/07/2008, at 4:04 AM, kevin mcmonagle wrote: now i can validate. thank you -kevin *** List Guidelines: h

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Newman
a little more valid / semantic div.clearer {clear: both; line-height: 0; height: 0;}   On 17/07/2008, at 4:04 AM, kevin mcmonagle wrote: Thank you david, a tip from that article has me sorted. I put a div at the bottom of the rapper content like this: .clear{clear:both} nice

RE: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-16 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of kevin mcmonagle > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:05 AM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height > > Thank you

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-16 Thread Matijs
These days it's also known how to do a clear without an additional clearing div... try giving the troublesome div overflow:hidden en you should also be sorted. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:04 PM, kevin mcmonagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you david, > a tip from that article has me sorted. >

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-16 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Thank you david, a tip from that article has me sorted. I put a div at the bottom of the rapper content like this: .clear{clear:both} nice trick just kind of forces, but I still dont understand why the outer wrapper would'nt scale automatically with three columns in an inner wrapper

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-15 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:08:47 +0100, kevin mcmonagle wrote: > hi, > I have a wrapper in that wont scale to its contained content/divs but there > are no > heights set in the divs that i can see. Is there something else that can > cause this? - Yes. If the content has A.P. blocks or floats that ar