CSS Assistance

[JustJon]

If anyone is good with Cascading Style Sheets, could you hit me up?&nbsp; I'm having some probs with div layouts and it's a pain in the ass.<br />

[SatCam]

How do we hit you? I'm good with them, but I'm no fancy pants

[Hottub]

<p>Sat, you little pecker, is there anything computer related you are not good at? Go out and play some ball! <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/bye.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Or start filling out those college apps.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp" target="_blank">Here's a site with some tutorials.</a></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Hottub on 8-30-06 @ 6:38 PM</span>

[SatCam]

<strong>Hottub</strong> wrote:<br><p>Sat, you little pecker, is there anything computer related you are not good at? Go out and play some ball! <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/bye.gif" border="0" /></p><p></p>

Still trying to figure out how to get this thing to get me laid

[JustJon]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Hottub</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Sat, you little pecker, is there anything computer related you are not good at? Go out and play some ball! <img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/bye.gif" /></p><p>Or start filling out those college apps.</p><p> </p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp">Here's a site with some tutorials.</a></p>

<span class="post_edited">This message was edited by Hottub on 8-30-06 @ 6:38 PM</span><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yeah, but tutorials like that don't tend to cover advanced techniques or &quot;hacks.&quot;&nbsp; There's just bugs in the CSS implementation across browsers and shit that the w3 doesn't cover.<br /></p>

[PaulF]

<p>The issue at hand for you watching this thread is the fact that IE incorrectly implements many CSS elements, but since it is the most popular browser, we assume it's behavior is correct. Firefox and other browsers implement CSS properly, but we think its wrong because it looks different from IE.</p><p>The specific issue related to nesting divs instead of using tables. If the nested div is longer than the height of the parent div, then it overflows the parent instead of it causing it to grow.</p><p>This is an often discussed problem and there are numerous hacks to address this, but each one has its own flaws.</p><p>The solution I've been using involves placing a small line of code before the close of the parent div that forces it to expand. Since this is stricly for presentation purposes, it ruffles the feathers of the strict concept of keeping content and presentation seperate.</p><p>'&lt;br style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;'</p><p>This usually works. (remove the single quotes at the beginning and&nbsp;after the brackets)</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by PaulF on 8-31-06 @ 11:05 AM</span>

[JustJon]

yeah, that didn't work for me, so I just made a second template for the gallery pages with larger divs in the page.&nbsp; Not the best solution, but one that works for this case.&nbsp; Nested divs suck because of the stretching issue, but they are great for layout.<br />