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WinIE: left float causes absolute div to vanish

Sent by Brad Cathey on 14 August 2004 20:08


> On 8/14/2004 12:37 PM Brad Cathey wrote:
> 
>> Fellow CSSers:
>> 
>> I've set up a simple test so you can see my problem. I have an absolute div
>> that does not appear in Win IE if the bottom-most div is left-floated. By
>> commenting out this attribute, you will see the Absolute Box appear, but
>> sending the Bottom Box to the top of the screen, and dropping my container
>> down in other browsers, i.e., I need to float it. Ideas??
> 
>> http://www.highgatecross.com/absleftfloatprob.html
> 
> Weird. I got it to work (I think) by adding "clear: both;" to the
> div#bottombox declaration. Don't make much sense, do it?.

I could have sworn I tried that at some point, but clear: both does indeed
work both in my test and in my production code.  Thank you, Steve!!

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