[thelist] Is there any way to keep a footer from covering a floatin xhtml?

[Jonathan]

> At 22:32 on Thursday, 08 Apr 2004, Jonathan wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to make sure that it does not come up the page?  I 
> > suppose I could float the left content as well, but I was 
> hoping not 
> > to.
> 
> I struggled with the same problem here: http://www.torbytes.co.uk/
> 
> and in the end I could have an invalid CSS hack to get 
> min-height cross browser or add a hacky, but valid spacer gif 
> to the content div.
> 
> http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-minheight-hack.html  
> explains the CSS route.

Ah Tony (of Maccaws Fame ;-),

That's *exactly* what I was looking for, and is the only workaround I've
seen.  Seems like an odd oversite for implmentation, as almost every
multi-column site must confront this.

Thank you very much!

Jonathan