Zoe, Audra, Thank you for your responses. I now have a clearer understanding of how elements inherit height from each other.
It seems that if there is a way to do this, it will involve some very clever manipulations of div tags. More than I can figure out right now, so I've opted to go with Audra's suggestion of a simple solid red coloured border for now. It will suffice until inspiration hits and I can pull off something fancier. -- Dave M G CSSed Zend Studio 5.5 Photoshop 7 (Wine) Inkscape, GIMP, Ubuntu 7.04 ______________________________________________________________________ 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/