My guess is this: Floating all of the objects inside the #content div
takes them out of the flow of the document - resulting in that div
having nothing inside of it to determine it's desired height.
Try using a non-floated "clearing div" technique to get the content
box to render the proper height. Here's an example of the code for a
"clearing div" Add the class to your CSS, and insert the "clearing
div" after the close of the #sidebar div, but before the close of the
#content div.
(CSS)
.cleaner {
clear:both;
height:1px;
font-size:1px;
border:none;
margin:0; padding:0;
background:transparent;
}
(HTML)
<div class="cleaner"> </div>
---------------------
You can also put content in the closing div - there's nothing that
says it needs to be styled as an empty container...
Beware - this does add some potentially "unsemantic" code to your
document - but we all do what we have to in order to achieve our goals
- no matter where they fall on the spectrum of standards.
Cheers!
-bd
PS - i'm not 100% that this will fix the problem you're having, but
it's something to look into.
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:08:21 -0400, Tom Livingston
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Might this be of assistance at all??
>
> http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 9, 2004, at 3:36 PM, Richard Lake wrote:
>
> > Thanks Hans. I've tried that, it didn't work unfortunately.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of Hans Nilsson
> > Sent: Friday, 10 September 2004 12:06 a.m.
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [WSG] Re: delayed rendering of containing div's background
> > colour
> >
> > Hey Richard!
> >
> > Try and remove the background-color:transparent; from the float's..
> > the div's default background is transparent anyways...
> > _____________________
> > Hans Nilsson
> > http://blog.hansnilsson.net
> >
> >
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