- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:37:17 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Cc: "stylo~" <list@swordandpen.com>
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:42:54 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: [...] >Floats busting out of their containers, overlapping their container's >borders, and interfering with subsequent sections is not only >counterintuitive, but a continual headache that makes the use of floats a >nightmare. I hear this repeatedly on developer boards/lists. Normally you >have sections, often with borders, and floated divs/images within them that >you quite rightly want to remain within them. The w3c pic >http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/images/float2p.gif demonstrates exactly what is >NOT wanted 99% of the time, and what developers are continually asking for >workarounds to. -And what is forcing them to maintain table layouts and the >align attribute. And yet the real solution is so fantastically simple? <http://css.nu/exp/layer-ex3b.html> <http://css.nu/exp/layer-ex3b.html> <http://css.nu/exp/layer-ex3d.html> There is no need to make a hen of a single feather. -- Rex
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