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one div's margin-top affecting neighbour

Sent by francky on 5 November 2006 21:09


Adam wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I have a page that's misbehaving in firefox 2.
>  
>
.... hoho: and should misbehave in IE too, if IE was css standards 
compliant... ;-)

>I am trying to apply a graphical look to my main content divs using a 
>set of images giving them rounded corners and shading.
>
>My approach is to use background images on divs absolutely positioned 
>into the corners of the containing div, and z-indexed to go behind the 
>content. Here's a snippet showing the image handling:
>
><div id="customerSearchResults">
>   <div class="testDialogCorner"
>     style="top:0;left:0;background:url(c1.jpg) no-repeat top left;">
>   </div>
>   <div class="testDialogCorner"
>     style="top:0;right:0;background:url(c2.jpg) no-repeat top right;">
>   </div>
>   <div class="testDialogBorder"
>     style="left:0;background:url(bleft.jpg) repeat left;"></div>
>   <div class="testDialogBorder"
> 
>style="right:0;background:url(bright.jpg);background-repeat:repeat;background-position:right;">
>   </div>
>   <div class="testDialogCorner"
>     style="bottom:0;left:0;background:url(c3.jpg) no-repeat bottom left;">
>   </div>
>   <div class="testDialogCorner"
>     style="bottom:0;right:0;background:url(c4.jpg) no-repeat bottom 
>right;"></div>
>   <div id="customerSearchResultsHeader" >
>     <!-- here is some actual content -->
>
>
>Here's the problem: in firefox 2, the margin-top on 
>customerSearchResultsHeader div is dragging down the background images 
>on the Dialog image-holding divs, which surely shouldn't happen.
>
>You can see I need to push the column headings down, but it shifts the 
>image too. Has anyone else come across this?
>
>This is the HTML: http://www.gargantus.com/sylvie/flow.htm
>
>I discovered a work-around by making the content divs absolute too, but 
>I would rather leave them relative.
>
>
>Thanks
>Adam
>
Hi Adam,
Maybe this can be usefull?

    * http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/liquidcorners/liquidcorners.htm

It is without absolute positioning! :-)

Succes and greetings,
francky
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