Jay Tanna wrote on 18 November 2009 at 12:27 > > You haven't said which DIV is causing the problem. You have only one div in your > snippet so it is difficult to comment.
I think that's probably because the OP doesn't really know where the problem lies, hence their post to this list (and that's not meant as a slight on the OP). But yes, we really need more information. See further down. > Generally, floated elements are relatively positioned within one another. Ah, no I don't think so, but someone a little more familiar with the specs may help us out here. I can see what you are trying to say, but since relative positioning is a type all unto itself, this is not the best way to describe the behaviour. It is true you can relatively position a float, but this is not the default. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#relative-positioning http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#floats And the below explains how floats are positioned. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#float-position >Therefore, a non floated DIV will stretch 100% while floated DIV will be > positioned relatively and automatically shrink to match the width of > the content inside itself. Right, a div in the 'normal flow' will expand to the window width, whereas a float will shrink-wrap to its content (usually!), and not because it has relative positioning. It's the float that causes the shrink-to-fit, and nothing else. > Have you got a sample page where we can have a look at to see what is going on. I wrote in my original reply on 18 November 2009 at 09:49 > > Since you can't send the page (understandable in this case) is there > any chance of stripping it down to a test case and posting it elsewhere, > or at the least cutting and pasting the entire form (and not just the div > from earlier). And Jeff responded to the list with > > Sorry about that! My boss is Marc with a c. I am going to look into it a > little more and if I can't find the solution then I will try to strip the form > out. Thanks for helping out with this. So we will just wait and see how he gets on I suppose. Mark ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
