Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Mark Wheeler wrote: >> Second, Gunlaug - That did the trick. I'm still fairly new at css, >> trial and error and all that. I never would have thought about using >> the overflow attribute to contain the div. I skimmed through the >> w3.org info and didn't fully understand it. I need to read it some >> more I guess. But in a nut shell (If that's possible) why doe the >> overflow: hidden make the float work as I wanted it to? >> > > Well, the answer is in the text: "... establish new block formatting > context". > <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#q15> > That means (among other things) "complete separation" or "isolation" > from its surroundings, while the container itself behaves in the > page-layout as the styling says. >
If you want a more simplified explanation, Mark and Michael, I wrote a free article on block formatting context article recently: http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=6BC9D Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
