RE: FN-FORUM: Site Check

date posted 24th August 2003 17:57

James Browne:
> (about http://www.thelondonartist.com )
> I had a look in firebird, and it seems not to like floated
> elements at all. Is this a known issue?

Yeeeeessss, ish.
Floating elements is one of those things that IE and Gecko vary *wildly* on.
IIRC, IE5 definitely does funny things regarding the effects of floating
elements on the height of their parents. I think Gecko's implementation is
closer to the standards than IE's, but a swift reread of the relevant
section ( http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#floats ) just made my head
hurt.

Having said that, the site looks as-desired in Opera, too. Depending on what
you're trying to acheive, the best solution may either be to use
tables, or have 'column' DIVs which are floated left and right
respectively, and nest non-floated DIVs inside these for the various
sections - I did something similar to this at http://www.nick.grimshaw.name/

> It seems to float the
> element even over sibling elements of its parent's block. Does
> anyone have a fix for this?

Test thoroughly, I'm afraid...

- Nick Grimshaw
{ if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. }