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Float, <ul>, and Clear

Sent by Zoe M. Gillenwater on 29 November 2004 20:08


Bryan Loeper wrote:

>The test-case [1] I'm currently working with floats some <li>s within
>a <ul>.  I want it to have a black background, but since the <ul>
>collapses in IE, I'm having some trouble.  I've already tried using
>the .clearfix [2] solution, but it's not working for me.  Near as I
>can tell, my XHTML and CSS are valid, except for one CSS error that
>I'm told by the W3C's specs [3] is not actually an error.  Has anyone
>else had experience with this or any solutions to offer?
>
>[1] http://morethanvalid.com/test.html
>  
>

The problem is that IE does not support position: fixed.  There are some 
ways to emulate it, though -- try googling.  Also might be interested in 
these pages from the wiki:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FixedLayouts
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=EmulatingFixedPositoning
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FooterInfo

Zoe

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Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Specialist
Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu

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