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

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Donna Maurer
Maadmob Interaction Design

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