Posted by Ben C on 12/22/06 23:21

On 2006-12-22, -Lost <spam_ninjaREMOVEME@REMOVEMEcomcast.net> wrote:
> "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.

They did in all the browsers I tried, and that is the specified
behaviour.

> 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.

Disambiguation accepted.

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

Which standards and where does it say that?

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

It's not my theory, it's all in CSS 2.1 (which is a "draft
recommendation"). Which standard are you referring to?

> 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.

None taken. Happy holidays.

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