Prabhath, I understand, and I knew there had to be more to it.
Respectfully, Mario >> 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 > ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
