Posted by -Lost on 12/22/06 23:03

"Ben C" <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote in message
news:slrneon3pr.bl7.spamspam@bowser.marioworld...

>> Say what? In what browser does that work? Your code (all of it)
>> would create three *floating* DIVs. That is to say they do not reach
>> from one side to the other.
>
> Which code? The example HTML, or what you reconstruct from my
> abbreviated description of the alternative using floats?

I did not reconstruct anything. I used *your* markup and CSS and applied it to a page.
You said they still span from left to right evenly across the page. I merely pointed out
that they do not spread evenly across the page and of course do not fill the width of the
browser.

What other word do you use to describe elements floating in the page other than "float"?
I never said I used float, I said they floated.

>> In Internet Explorer 6 they are barely 30px wide. All positioned
>> elements should have a width specified if I remember correctly.
>
> Not necessarily, in many circumstances where leave the width as auto you
> get the "shrink-to-fit" width (which you also get for floats with auto
> width). Sometimes this is just what you want.

The standards state that a floated box *must have* an explicit width assigned via the
"width" property.

Your "shrink-to-fit" theory may work in the quirkiest of situations, but it is not
standard.

Anyway, after that small pissing match I just want it stated I was attempting to learn
from all given examples, I just did not understand yours is all. No offenses intended.

Be well.

-Lost

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