Thanks for the help James - I'm just going offline but I'll look at the
link you gave later!
John Latter
On 16/02/2006 James MacLeod wrote:
> Right first this first the reason the menu overlaps is that your
content div has finished so it just wraps round. What would be better is
if you put the left column as a div i.e:
>
> #leftClm {
> width: 33%;
> float: left;
> display: block;
> padding: .. etc.
> }
>
> Here is a good example:
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/basic2_fluid.html
>
> James MacLeod
>
> On Feb 16, 2006, at 09:28, John Latter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to css and would appreciate some help with the following two
> problems I've encountered in setting up a blog which can be seen here:
>
>
http://evomech2.blogspot.com/2006/02/re-evomech-re-peer-review-and-genetic.html
>
>
> Its a 2 column layout and I think the relevant css code is:
>
> div#mainClm{float:right;width:66%;padding:30px 7% 10px
> 3%;border-left:dotted 1px #E0AD12;}
> div#sideBar{margin:20px 0px 0px
> 1em;padding:0px;text-align:left;width:100%;}
>
> The first problem (which occurs on Firefox but not IE6) can be seen at
> the bottom of the above page where the sidebar text overflows into main
> content area. I have tried to fix it myself but with many other things
> to do I'm really stumbling about in the dark.
>
> The second problem isn't readily apparent because I've tidied the main
> column content up:
>
> Entries in the main column are auto-added from a yahoo group and contain
> "tt" tags which are then carried over into the sidebar and change the
> text font. A similar effect is caused by posters using a variety of
> composing programs. Is there any code I can add to the end of the main
> div to stop _anything_ being inherited by the sidebar div?
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