Re: [css-d] understanding negative margins and floats

2006-11-30 Thread francky
mean dspt wrote: >Hi, I was experimenting with layouts from Layout Gala >http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ >it uses exessively negative margins and floats for layouts. I've >modified one of the layouts, and added some new divs. The sample page >is there http://pmplus.org/layout7.html You can notice

Re: [css-d] understanding negative margins and floats

2006-11-30 Thread Matt Dawson
It took me a minute to figure out what you were asking - but once I popped the hood, it makes sense. Floating an element takes it out of the normal flow of the document. In the case of your navigation bar (on the left), you have 4 nearly-identical speced elements (ie same size, proportions, etc.)

[css-d] understanding negative margins and floats

2006-11-30 Thread mean dspt
Hi, I was experimenting with layouts from Layout Gala http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ it uses exessively negative margins and floats for layouts. I've modified one of the layouts, and added some new divs. The sample page is there http://pmplus.org/layout7.html You can notice the side columns are st