On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 3:21 AM, MEM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CSS Basic Question: Background Color: > > If I quit the height value, I get no background color. Why?
Try adding: .mainlinks#navigation { overflow: hidden; } It sounds like your nav items are floated, and therefore the container will not explicitly stretch to accommodate them unless you force it to. -- Blake Haswell http://www.blakehaswelll.com/ | http://blakehaswell.wordpress.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/