Right aligned floats and content linearity

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 03:11:09 +0200, Eric B. Bednarz wrote:

"SantaKlauss" <santaklaussHATESSPAM (AT) mail (DOT) md> writes:
and keep in mind that IE will consider padding as part of the width,
while other browsers, correctly, don't.

Hear, hear.

What is the usual way to deal with this? Use a div in a div or so (the
outer to set the width, the inner to set the padding)?

In article <0stmlvor0nojmgmqeb6h9hatep9c548uoo (AT) 4ax (DOT) com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Headless
<me (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote:

Stan Brown wrote:

- use absolute positioning

Won't work. (absolutely positioned elements are removed from the flow)

Of course you _could_ specify appropriate margins ...

You've lost me, explain please.

Why bother? You'll just snap out "won't work", and _then_ tell us
other conditions you didn't bother to disclose the when you asked
your question.

We've been down this road before.

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Stan Brown wrote:

You've lost me, explain please.

Why bother? You'll just snap out "won't work", and _then_ tell us
other conditions you didn't bother to disclose the when you asked
your question.

What other conditions?

My impression is that SantaKlauss thinks of floating as a method to
align, this is incorrect. It should be obvious that inline content needs
to flow besides and beneath the object if floating is used
appropriately.


Headless

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