Hi all! This is my first post here.
I have two floats, one next to the other, content and side. There is a
third box under them, the footer. I'd like the footer to have some
margin-top, but I can't manage that, even with clear:both.
If I want the footer to have a margin-top then I have to
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM, sweepslate sweepsl...@gmail.com wrote:
I have two floats, one next to the other, content and side. There is a third
box under them, the footer. I'd like the footer to have some margin-top, but
I can't manage that, even with clear:both.
Per the spec:
Then
The reason that the margin-top on the div#footer has no effect on the
floated div#content and div#side is floated boxes are not in the flow
and are therefore invisible to other block boxes.
You have three options to create the 10px gap:
div#content , div#side
{
margin-bottom:10px;
}
Or:
At 10:00 AM -0500 12/17/10, Tim White wrote:
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM, sweepslate sweepsl...@gmail.com wrote:
I have two floats, one next to the other, content and side. There is a third
box under them, the footer. I'd like the footer to have some margin-top, but
I can't manage
In other words, the '10px' value is overridden by the browser because it
needs more than 10px of top margin to push the cleared element down far
enough. If that were changed to, say, '1px' then you'd see the top
margin in full force.
I put a margin-top of 1px (and more) on
On 12/17/2010 5:34 PM, Eric A. Meyer wrote:
To clarify, the cleared element does have a top margin. It's just that
the top margin is set by the browser to be wide (tall?) enough to push
the element's top outer border edge past the float's bottom outer margin
edge. In other words, the '10px'
I put a margin-top of 1px (and more) on div#footer, but did not
see any effect.
The margin-top had no effect because it was collapsing through
div#wrapper. It worked after I put padding-top:1px on div#wrapper.
~Chetan
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