Re: [css-d] Clearing internal floats

2006-02-21 Thread Tom Edwards
Oh well, thanks anyway! :-) --- Els <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, overflow:auto doesn't have effect in IE, and > yes, it does > give a 'block effect', a clear property has a > problem with the > sidebar, unless the parent (#page) is floated, but > #page can't be > floated if you want the

Re: [css-d] Clearing internal floats

2006-02-21 Thread Tom Edwards
Yeah, sorry. My fault for trying to do anything meaningful at 10:30PM! There is one difference though: the green div is inside another div, "page", that sits between it and the sidebar in the div hierarchy. I'll remove that and see where floating gets me. Yes, I'm trying to make the green area exp

Re: [css-d] Clearing internal floats

2006-02-20 Thread Tom Edwards
Whoops, missed this one. Messages aimed at me get keep getting sent to the junk folder. The only difference between your and my pages is that the sidebar div comes before the content for me. Is that causing the problem? --- Els <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I didn't explain it well enough :

Re: [css-d] Clearing internal floats

2006-02-20 Thread Tom Edwards
Sure: http://www.steamreview.org/files/newstyle.htm That's more of a personal testbed (thus all the Mozilla-specific code), but the float issue affects the main page too. I've made the entry div green to show where it lies. I'm currently using overflow:auto on the main page which more or less wo

Re: [css-d] Clearing internal floats

2006-02-20 Thread Tom Edwards
Unfortunately, that makes everything clear the sidebar. It was the first thing I tried, should have mentioned it. --- Els <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Edwards wrote: > > I'd appreciate some help with this problem. Here > is > &g

[css-d] Clearing internal floats

2006-02-19 Thread Tom Edwards
I'd appreciate some help with this problem. Here is what I'm trying to achieve: - | Content#1 --- --| | | Image | | Sidebar float || | | float | ||| | | | |