> Please forgive me if I've missed something, but I must respectfully disagree. > > I've created a number of fixed-width layouts centered within the viewport at > 760px, and floated > one-column left and the other column right inside a container div without > issue. >
Yes, I've done it without problems too. But the situation discussed here is different because the container has a border, which should be as tall as the tallest of the content elements "inside" it. If this tallest element happens to be floated, and that float is *not* cleared *inside* the container, the container will not "stretch" down to wrap it. If it were not for that border, we could've gone ahead and used a non-wrapping container, and used "clear: both" for any footer content. cheers, Prabhath http://nidahas.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
