Thanks, now I remember how it works! I have used positioning before (it is on my current site), but do find it a bit tricky to think around!
Feeling silly... Donna On 5 Oct 2005 at 11:23, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > Donna Maurer wrote: > > When you position something absolutely, you remove it from the normal > document flow. This means that no matter how long the individual columns > are, they will not "push" the height of the container at all. In the > worst case, if all you'd have in that container is absolutely positioned > columns, the container will collapse to a height of zero. > > The same happens when you use floats inside a container: if you don't > have something as the last item of the container to clear them, the > container will collapse. > > -- > Patrick H. Lauke -- Donna Maurer Maadmob Interaction Design e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: http://maadmob.com.au/ blog: http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/ AOL IM: maadmob ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
