[thelist] Parent DIV won't take background color

Fri Feb 18 15:46:25 CST 2005

There is no "#container" div on the page that you used as a sample to show us.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:04:03 -0800 (PST), Daniel LeVangie-Stricklen
<muraii at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Can someone take a look at Douglas Bowman's Blogger
> template Minima at
> 
>   http://www.blogger.com/templates/minima/sample.html
> 
> and help me figure out something about how the DIVs
> are working?
> 
> Specifically, I'm using this basic structure for my
> blog, and I've decided that I wanted to style the
> <body> background separately from that of the
> contents.  So, I colored the body, and colored the
> <div> with the id "#content".  That didn't work.  I
> colored each of the "#main" and "#sidebar" <div>s, and
> that *did* work, though it leaves a gulf of the screen
> with the <body> background color coming through.  To
> experiment, then, I then styled the <div> children of
> the ".post" class with another background color, and
> that worked also.
> 
> So, that leaves me with the question: why won't the
> "#container" <div> take a background color?
> 
> I thought that it might have to do with the fact that
> the "#container" <div> didn't have any content of its
> own, but was a wrapper for the other two primary
> content <div>s.  So, I dropped a test paragraph before
> the "#main" <div> and after the "#sidebar" <div>.  The
> "#content" <div> now takes a background color, but
> only as far down the screen as the "#sidebar" <div>
> goes.  I tried to throw another test paragraph
> sequentially after the "#main" <div> but before the
> "#sidebar" <div>, thinking that it would follow the
> longer content of the "#main" <div", but that didn't
> work.
> 
> I have a hunch that this is what all those tutorials
> I've skimmed about the multi-column layout have been
> about, and so I'll be hunting them down again.  But
> just on the offchance that there's something goofy
> going on with Firefox or the ordering of some code, I
> thought I'd go ahead and toss in this question.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Daniel
> 
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