----Original Message---- From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Ben Yates Sent: 08 October 2004 00:41 To: thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: [thelist] hiding floats (CSS) > I've got a page where each consecutive DIV has a > varying-width left-side graphic, and I'm using empty floats > to push the text to the right and prevent it from overlapping > that graphic. It works well when the DIVs are long enough ( > http://www.bluehairgroup.com/index.php?p=2 , for > example) but when they're too short, one DIV's floats will > extend below that DIV, overlapping the next one and messing > everything up ( http://www.bluehairgroup.com/index.php?cat=10 ). Any > ideas? > > (Disclaimer: the site is still very much unfinished; I > haven't even tested it in Internet Explorer yet -- I'll do > that at the very end, since I have a good idea of what needs > to be hacked -- so I assume it's fairly nonfunctional in that > browser.) Sounds like a job for our CSS pal - min-height. Good article by the mercurial Dave Shea on implementing this successfully: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/09/16/minheight_fi/index.php Love the layout, certainly very eye-catching! Regards, Gary