[thelist] How does "Box-in-a-box" hack work?

[Joshua Olson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John.Brooking at sappi.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:54 PM
>
> Dear evolters,
>
> Many places, such as the CSS-Discuss site[1], have documented the IE Box
> Model problem and the "Box-in-a-box" workaround, where you put
> your content
> in two DIV tags, set the width of both to your desired width

John,

I think that you only set the width for the OUTER box only.  The inner box
should not have a specified width and should therefore fill the outer box.

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Joshua Olson
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WAE Tech Inc.
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