Shelly, On Jun 9, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Shelly wrote:
> I know I don't contribute a lot to this list (kind of hard to offer > advice when you're in the ranks that some of you all are in - I > sometimes feel like a Private standing in front of Patton, if you know > what I mean) - but I found something I thought was interesting. I know how you feel. I felt the same way a few years ago and Zoe had to push me to participate on-list. > I was having an issue with an "experiment" someone laid on the the > other > day, and I was - for a short time - looking for a way to "clear" an > absolutely positioned div in the same way you could clear a float. I > was pretty sure it couldn't be done (in fact, in my search, I found a > response from Ingo to a thread written a little over a year ago that > specified "no" to this exact question - which sort of made it a > definite > for me). > > However, I *did* find this: > > http://www.shauninman.com/assets/examples/si-clear-absolutes-1.6/ > nested.html Ingo is still right. This page is just absolutely positioning everything and using overflow hidden to keep things from overlapping. But that means text is lost/hidden if it can't fit (try increasing your tet size to see what I mean). It may look like clearing, but it isn't. -- Roger Roelofs ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
