Posted by John Salerno on 10/05/06 14:49

1995 Cobra wrote:
> Ben C wrote:
>> On 2006-10-05, 1995 Cobra <mg@deepskystudio.com> wrote:
>>> Hello all, CSS new guy here. I've been adapting well to this, but have
>>> hit a snag. My pages look pretty good when the window is fully
>>> expanded, but if you begin to collapse it or have it sized small (the
>>> browser window), all the content starts to "stack" itself - making the
>>> page look aweful. For instance, I float a div to the left and then have
>>> another div that should display to the right of it. Full window, looks
>>> great. Start to collapse the window and it puts the div that should be
>>> to the right below the height floated div (essentially moving it out of
>>> viewable space and creating a void to the right of what is viewable).
>>> Here is an example of the code i'm using... any thoughts:
>> You can give the container the floats are in a width set in pixels. Then
>> if the viewport is smaller than that, you'll get a horizontal scrollbar,
>> but the floats won't jump underneath each other.
>>
>> Alternatively (perhaps preferably as horizontal scrollbars are
>> unappealing) give the floats percentage widths so they get narrower
>> together with the viewport.
>>
>> Floats jumping underneath each other when there isn't enough horizontal
>> space available is correct behaviour; so however you decide to fix it,
>> you basically have to make sure there's going to be enough room for them
>> to fit at the side.
>
> Wow, good stuff. Setting that width gives me the desired affect with,
> of course, one minor challenge. My first floated <div> (the flash) has
> a specific width of 225px. The "holder" <div> will vary based on how
> big someone's window is, but it's essential that it be the full width,
> no more no less, regardless. I can't set it to 100% right, because then
> it will still push itself under? Any thoughts?
>

This is a strange newsgroup for me. I don't seem to be getting all the
posts. I don't see the post by "Ben C" that is being responded to above.
Are there multiple ways of posting to the group that might cause this?

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