-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Box floating, footer placement, completion of column
Hi, I normally just lurk and listen in on everyone here and enjoy it a great deal. I have a small site design that is causing me problems, and I can't seem to find the problem. http://64.219.167.253/test/testpage.php Three issues going on here: 1) The page footer is floating in the middle of the page, not at the bottom 2) The left navigation bar (black background) stops short, does not continue length of page as i want. 3) The line "Here is content after the boxes" -- what I *want* is to have two floating boxes, side by side, each with its list in it, and the "here is content after the boxes" should fall AFTER those two boxes. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Kathy Lessa ****************************************************** Kathy, start by adding a doctype so the browser knows what set of rules to use for interpreting your tags. And add a character set meta tag. Take the guess work out of it for the browser. It will help you and the end user. For ease of use, you might consider html4 strict as your doctype. Second, get into the habit of writing tags in lower case. While not required with some doctypes, lower case is required in xhtml strict which is the doctype towards which page composition is moving. Third you need to study a bit about floats. You are clearing improperly. That's why you have the positioning issues. You need to not clear the first float and do the clear:both after the second float. For a quick tutorial see: http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/float-theory.html Fourth, your footer should be a list. For that see: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/ Fifth, validate your code, both css and html. drew ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
