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Aug 26.2005

Hi

I have the following [URL=http://www.rigadon.com/toopa]page[/URL] – I suspect already you can see what I am going to ask?! I’ve floated the sidebar to the right, but this means the containing div ignores it when determining its own size. How can I align the sidebar on the right and still have the containing div encompass it?

Also – if anyone has browsers other than Firefox and IE could they have a look at this page and tell me if it appears correctly?

Thanks
Jay

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@FangAug 26.2005 — Add this: </div>
[COLOR=Green]<div style="clear:both;"></div>[/COLOR]
</div>
<div id="footer">

and minor adjustmentshtml, body {margin:10px; padding:0;}
form {margin:0;}
ok in IE6, FF and Opera
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@rigadonauthorAug 26.2005 — Thanks Fang - I also found this rather nice fix which doesn't require adding any extra divs:

[URL]http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html[/URL]
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@FangAug 26.2005 — That solution relies on a hack, not to be recomended.

Look at this [URL=http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html]solution[/URL]
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@rigadonauthorAug 26.2005 — Strange - that just seemed to mess things up! All the widths get messed up and things still overlap!
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@FangAug 26.2005 — This works:<div id="main" style="overflow:auto;height:100%;">
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