[thelist] Floating DIV issues.

sulasmin suruji sazmin_alyin at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 20 02:49:49 CDT 2001


--- Jacob Stetser <lists at icongarden.com> wrote:
> http://lazydeveloper.com/tests/floatdiv.html
> 
> So, on the above page, I display my problem (this
> page won't look 
> right in anything but 5+ browsers and up. The actual
> page uses 
> @import to deal with that, but this is just thrown
> together for 
> testing.
> 
> Anyway, I have a floating div (FLOAT) contained
> within another div 
> (MAIN). Unfortunately, MAIN doesn't expand to the
> full height of 
> FLOAT, and so the background I set in MAIN only
> shows up part of the 
> way.
> 
> Turns out this is correct behavior. I thought I'd
> fixed it by 
> sticking a THIRD div (STUPID) with clear:both and
> width:100%, also 
> inside MAIN. This moves to the bottom of FLOAT, thus
> forcing MAIN to 
> expand to that height.
> 
> Except in Netscape 6. At least on Windows. Any
> ideas? Or should I 
> resign myself to living with the different look in
> NS6?
> 
> Jake
> 
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