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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/03/06 23:22
Ian Shortman wrote:
> I have a div called 'utility' with produces an absolute positioned
> sidebar on my website. However, if the content is shorter than the
> length of this sidebar - it overhangs the footer. By this I mean the
> long length seems to not shift where the end of the content is
> interpretted at. (An example can be seen on my site:
> http://brokenbulb.co.uk/blog/1). I have tried to enclose this absolute
> div within an relitive div content wrap ('wrap') - however this seems
> to have had no effect.
Of course it wouldn't, absolute positioned elements are not flowed with
the page, See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#absolute-positioning
I have also added the clear tag to a blank div
> below all the content (<div style="clear:both;"></div>), and this also
> seems to have failed to work.
Clear works with floats not absolute positioning. Float left your
sidebar then clear left on your footer would achieve what your desire.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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