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positioning and float problem


tjhilder

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Hi,

I'm having some trouble with css positioning, basicly I have bunch of div tags, some inside each other, I go to center them (and also float) but by doing that, my main div (the one that the others are all in) will only include the ones that don't have float : left; in them, and plus on IE it's now not centering (FF is fine with it).

the link is below:
http://www.tjhilder.co.uk/new/test.php

(just click view source to see both the html and css.

if you can help me out, thanks a lot.

TJ
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If you want IE to center you div by using the margins, you need to include the document declartion

[code]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
[/code]

If you floating HTML elements, you'll need to clear them before closing the holding div

So, something like this in the style
[code]
.clear_float {clear:both;
height:1px;
overflow:hidden;
[/code]

and you middel section will look like this
[code]
<div id="middle">

middle
<div id="middle-top">
middle top
</div>
<div id="left">
left
</div>
<div id="right">
right
</div>
<div class="clear_float">&nbsp;</div>
</div>

[/code]
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