[thelist] CSS: Don't understand how floats are supposed to work.

[Matt Warden]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:59:13 -0600, Minh Lee Goon <evolt at goonies.info> wrote:
> <div id="Container" style="clear:both;">
>       <div id="Header" style="clear:both;"></div>
>       <div id="Navigation" style="clear:both;"></div>
>       <div id="Content" style="clear:both;">
>            <div style="clear:both;">
>                 <div id="Instructions" style="float:left;"></div>
>                 <div id="Links" style="float:right;"></div>
>            </div>
>       </div>
>       <div id="Footer" style="clear:both"></div>
> </div>

Typically you can fix this by floating the div below which you want
other elements pushed. So, try adding "float: left;" to #content.

For what it's worth, though, opening up your example code above in
Firefox/linux pushed the footer down like you wanted it to. So, your
problem might be elsewhere.


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