Help with CSS Layout

[Sybren Stuvel]

Alan Cole enlightened us with:

What I'd like to know is how to get the footer to be positioned
below all three columns whichever one of them happens to be the
longest.

I don't have a direct answer for you. What you do need to do, though,
is get rid of all the pixel sizes. You also set heights etc.
explicitly, even though you can't know those in advance. This makes
the layout look rather messy. There is at least one element with two
heights set in the same CSS rule. You also set font-size: 100% in
places where this isn't needed. Write clean and proper CSS, and your
browser will be a lot friendlier to you.

Sybren

 

[Alan Cole]

you need to put "clear: both;" into the css for your footer...

Rudy

Hmm, just tried that with no joy.

 

[Alan Cole]

Nested divs! Try putting all your 3 column divs inside another div.

I tried that earlier and it didn't work... I'm sure I'm making this
difficult for myself somewhere and the answer is really pretty straight
forward.

Al.

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

I tried that earlier and it didn't work... I'm sure I'm making this
difficult for myself somewhere and the answer is really pretty straight
forward.

I seem not to be able to find your original post, so I'm not really sure
as to what the effect is you're after. Even so, I've tried and put up a
small test page at
<http://home.wanadoo.nl/b.de.zoete/_test/3-columns-foot.html>

See if that is of any help for your problem. BTW: didn't valid

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:17:28 +0100, Barbara de Zoete


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<talks out loud>
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<mea culpa />

I'm sorry for the attachment in the previous post. I never meant that
thing to be sent here. Been clumsy with mouse.