Re: CSS liquid layout - can"t achieve correct sizing

In article ,
Ben C 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

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. In the earlier one I
was talking about parental retaliation, and playing silly buggers
with a set of floats that were designed to look like a book.

In the later longer treatise , I was more serious and
substituted the image of the parent being simply blind to floated
children. I tried to solve a few problems in all of this by
having floated children themselves being aware of not only their
siblings (both floated and non-floated) but also being aware of
their parents position. Placement, height and how to think of all
these things were sort of all parts of one story.

Probably slightly wincing reading for experts, but the earlier
version was even more so. In the earlier version there was the
image of the parent rejecting floated children, in the later
there is the image of the parent being blind to them (ie. your
"ignoring" is still an important image. It is just that the
ignoring in the later one is helpless rather than conscious )

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dorayme