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Murray *TMM*

2005-01-31, 7:22 pm

It's poifect....

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"Alexander Ross" <aross@dosomething.org> wrote in message
news:ctm75v$aq4$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Lets say I have this:
>
> <div id="parent" style="color:#CCC;">
> <div id="child" style="float:right; width=100px;">
> blah blah blah blah<br>
> blah blah blah blah<br>
> blah blah blah blah
> </div>
> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
> </div>
>
> In this example, the floting section will usually be longer (vertically)
> than the main content of the #parent tag. Therefor, the "blah blah blah"s
> will appear both inside and below the gray box. To remedy this i have been
> adding the following just before the final </div>:
>
> <br style="clear:both">
>
> I feel like this is a band-aid solution and that I'm missing some better
> remedy. For lack of a better term, this seems extremly inelegant.
> Thoughts?
>



Gary White

2005-01-31, 11:16 pm

Alexander Ross wrote:

>no one else feels they are padling against the current when doing this?



No more than when using spacers to hold tables to size. ;-)


Gary
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