yah it's almost like you don't need the float: left On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Peter H. <li...@artworkers.net> wrote:
> Georg, I'm intrigued by your example and have wanted that behaviour > several times in the past and couldn't figure a way to achieve it without > fixed height divs. > > But from your test page there's a bit of css that I don't understand: > > .floating { > float-:left; > width:140px; > margin:1em .5em 0 0; > border:1px dashed #ccc; > display: inline-block; > vertical-align: top; > } > > In your float declaration, if one removes the hyphen after the word > 'float' the page ceases to behave in the desired way. > > On the other hand, if 'float-' is a mistype (and doesn't exist as a > declaration) then there is no float declaration and the whole thing depends > on display: inline-block; > > Is that right? > > I wonder how far back inline-block is supported. When you say 'obsolete > browsers', are you referring to IE6 and IE7? > > Peter > > > > > El 27/07/2012, a las 01:43, Georg escribió: > > > > ...an if you don't bother to test this old float-alternative at your > end, here are a few examples. > > > > http://www.gunlaug.com/contents/test/test-floating-boxes.html > > http://www.gunlaug.com/contents/test/test-floating-boxes-c.html > > http://www.gunlaug.com/contents/test/test-floating-boxes-r.html > > > > I can't be bothered to debug obsolete browsers, so others will have to > include the old fixes for those - if they like. > > > > regards > > Georg > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@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/ > -- *Thanks, Vladimir Fernandes* ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/