Michael Leibson wrote: > It's amazing how much CSS one can forget in a few months! I'm sure > there's a very simple answer to this -- but I've forgotten it!
Happens at times. > My containing div has a border. It also contains three other divs: > two that are within the normal flow, and one (class="rightside") that > is absolutely positioned. Rather than figuring the > absolutely-positioned div in its own border calculations, the > containing div's border ignores it. > > 1) Why? You mean: "absolute positioned elements take up no layout-space" ? Well, they don't, so the .rightside element has no impact on .container's dimensions, and will overflow. > 2) The proper way around this CSS fact-of-life? We would most often float .rightside and _contain_ the float. Maybe this way... <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/ml/test_08_0912.html> > http://members.distributel.net/~leibson/tests/border_problem.html BTW: is it your intention to trigger quirks mode in all browsers... <http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/> ...or did you just paste in the wrong doctype declaration for this test-page by mistake? Mode will affect a few things - especially in IE/win, but doesn't affect how A:P works. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
