[thelist] i don't like css (because i can't do it right?)

[Chris W. Parker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Marsh [mailto:chris at webbtech.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:04 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] i don't like css (because i can't do it right?)


> Try putting <div style='clear: both'>&nbsp;</div> before the first
> floated DIV and after the last floated DIV. This should force the
> container DIV to recognise the fact that it has content
> without messing
> up your formatting too much. This *will* however give you "padding" at
> the top and bottom of the container, so you might want to substitute a
> 1px spacer gif for the &nbsp;.

1. .spacer is { clear: both; }
2. i tried your suggestion and it works. but not as hoped for.

as i'm sure you noticed, i have:

div {
	border: 1px dotted #0f0;
}

to let me know where all the boundaries are. this has been very helpful
(and yes i thought of it myself).

now what's happening is that the first spacer div is starting below a
div in the nav container.
http://www.swatgear.com/testfiles/intranet/home/dev/

(here is an awesome ascii drawing)
+-------------------------------------------+
| +-HEADER--------------------------------+ |
| |                                       | |
| +---------------------------------------+ |
| +-NAV------+ +-CONTENT------------------+ |
| |+-DIV----+| |                          | |
| ||        || |                          | |
| |+--------+| |                          | |
| +----------+ |                          | |
|              |+-DIV--------------------+| |
|              |+------------------------+| |
|              |+-DIV---------++-DIV-----+| |
|              ||             ||         || |
|              ||             ||         || |
|              |+-------------++---------+| |
|              |+-DIV--------------------+| |
|              |+------------------------+| |
|              +--------------------------+ |
|                                           |
|                                           |
|                                           |
+-------------------------------------------+

ok, so maybe it's a little confusing what with all the lines and
whatnot.

anyways, what do you think is happening?


thanks,
chris.