David Laakso wrote:
> Stuart Walsh wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I must be making a clumsy, beginner's, mistake somewhere but I just
>>> can't figure out what is the problem.
>>>
>>> The CSS validates but isn't working as it should. Here is the page:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.tuningsinthirds.com/cytre/
>>>
>>> and the CSS:
>>>
>>> http://www.tuningsinthirds.com/cytre/new.css
>>>
>>> I can't get the wrapper div to wrap around everything
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> IE gets it wrong. This is true 99.999 percent of the time.
>
> Bear with with me. We're going to enclose the page with a fuchsia
> colored border by correcting the markup and opening the footer:
>
> 1/ You have closed one more division than you have opened. Delete the
> </div> immediately below </ul>.
>
> 2/
> #wrapper
> {
> width : 800px;
> margin : 0 auto;
> text-align : left;
> /*border-left : 1px solid gray; delete*/
> border: 1px solid fuchsia; <------add
> }
> #footer .
> {
> clear : both;
> border-bottom:1px solid none; <---- add
> overflow: hidden; <--- add to open the footer so it will be enclosed
> within the page border
> }
>
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>
Thanks very much for your help. The page now works - with a border all
around the wrapper just at stage 1, closing the </div> below the </ul>.
(I'm curious about the second and third rules in #footer. The footer
gets enclosed just by removing the </div>.) Thanks again.
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