On Oct 27, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Rahul Gonsalves wrote: > The other way to do float clearing is to specify overflow: hidden, > and a > hasLayout trigger of your choice. > > http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html > > I would like to hear from people with more experience about whether > this > is a less than optimal way of doing things?
It is a technique to contain floats - one of them. It has some problems, eventually: overflow:hidden can crop content and render it inaccessible to the user. You may have a larger data table in there that fits nicely at your font-size, but the user (the user is always wrong, right ?) decides that your chosen font-size is really to small and zooms in a bit. The table might not fit anymore, but is cropped by the overflow:hidden. Liquid designs are more sensitive to this problem, obviously. Other possibilities to contain floats: display:table or display:table- cell, 'hasLayout' triggers in IE windows. I do like the 'easy clearing' method, though. Easy to maintain, can be reused all over the site, pretty stable. I have a class near the top of my stylesheet, well documented for the maintainer, and that is it. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
