Wed, 2003-04-09 16:20
Simple coding....
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Shouldn't this create a yellow stripe across the back of the SPANs? I can't
get it to work, unless I remove the "float:left;" specification. Any clues
how to make this work?
--Brent
Thu, 2003-04-10 07:46
#1
Float:left & background
Give the original DIV some height, or add a spacer div/span at the end:
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
As there's nothing actually in the original DIV some browsers won't show it. Getting rid of the float does put stuff into the div and gives it some height. The clear creates a div that is below all floats, and here it'll be inside the yellow div, giving it a reasonable height.
Hope that helps!
Thu, 2003-04-10 15:39
#2
At last!
This, indeed, does help! Finally the div shows a background color. Thanks for your help!
--Brent