Sent by Zoe M. Gillenwater on 13 January 2005 17:05
Julian Voelcker wrote:
>I have a series of relatively positioned stacked layers, some with
>background colours, in a column.
>
>I am finding that with layers with backgrounds colours, the colour
>refuses to run down to the bottom of the layer - it only provides a
>background to the actual content.
>
>If I apply a border to the layer, the colour bleeds right down to the
>bottom as expected.
>
>Is there any way around this without having to set a border at the
>bottom?
>
>
Can we see a page? I'm not sure I understand your description.
However, anything that is affected by the addition of a border probably
has to do with margin collapsing... I'm betting that the content within
these "layers" has bottom margins applied, right (and remember that many
elements have default bottom margins whether you apply them or not)?
Zoe
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Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Specialist
Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu
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