Posted by Ben C on 12/18/07 21:45

On 2007-12-18, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article <slrnfmfdbm.kb3.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
> Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:
>
>> >> dorayme has a webpage about containment of descendent floats with some
>> >> examples but I can't find the url.
>> >
>> > It is (in its unfinishedness) at:
>> >
>> > http://netweaver.com.au/floatHouse/page1.html
>>
>> That's more about float placing. I meant the other one. You had a box
>> with some floats in it and some parables about parents ignoring their
>> children.
>
> Ah... you mean:
>
> http://netweaver.com.au/floatHouseOfAlice/normalHouse.html

Yes that's the one I was thinking of.

> I found it still on the server. Well, that one was just an
> earlier version of the longer one. You have to read the longer
> one on a bit to see that it *is* concerned about how to think
> about parents, floated children and height.

You're right, I had forgotten that. I only remembered the next bit about
how floats and inlines arrange themselves.

In fact there's some good stuff there about container heights between
about pages 3 and 5 which might be useful to the OP to look at.

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