[css-d] position relative border disappears

2012-04-20 Thread Barry Brevik
top border of #col3 goes away. I have tinkered with this for hours and absolutely cannot figure this out. Thanks in advance for looking, Barry Brevik __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailma

Re: [css-d] Need help with floats

2012-01-05 Thread Barry Brevik
I want to thank everyone who posted back on this issue. Now I have a couple of ways to do it. My next task is to understand how they work and what I did wrong . Thanks again, and sorry that my original message was html; it was an accident. Barry Brevik

[css-d] Need help with floats

2012-01-04 Thread Barry Brevik
I'm developing a page (only needs to be viewable by MSIE at this time) where there is a div containing 2 images and 2 text blurbs. The upper image is at the top and floats left with the text flowing around it on the right, which mostly works. The lower image is supposed to be opposite; posi

Re: [css-d] Help with div sizing?

2011-08-19 Thread Barry Brevik
gt;You can't have float and center at the same time in this situation. That is a good reply, and it works, but I was trying to get away with the container div self-sizing to it's content and then having it be centered without having to specifically dimension it. Barry Brevik __

Re: [css-d] Help with div sizing?

2011-08-19 Thread Barry Brevik
ry well, but you can bet I'll be > studying it. Oops. I probably should have mentioned that I also want to center the result horizontally in the browser window. After trying a whole bunch of things, I'm going to guess that it can't be done using this method. Barry Brevik _

Re: [css-d] Help with div sizing?

2011-08-19 Thread Barry Brevik
> > http://www.manicreader.com/testpage.html > > Use float:left on the DIV#container, then on the element that > follows it, use clear:left. Wow, man, that works a charm! To be honest, I don't understand float and clear very well, but you can bet I'll be s

[css-d] Help with div sizing?

2011-08-19 Thread Barry Brevik
://www.manicreader.com/testpage.html TIA, Barry Brevik __ 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