Hi,
I've an issue and need some help.
I've some nested divs that look fine - as long as there's no content. Once I added some test text, as the pages may have lots of content, spacing appeared above the divs. Here's a link to a screenshot of the issue:
http://www.stephencamper.com/screenshot/screenshot.gif
...and here's what the code looks like:
<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled</title>
<link href="css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#wrap {
width: 1024px;
margin: auto;
}
#header {
width: 982px;
height: 98px;
margin: auto;
}
#body_container {
width: 982px;
}
#top_inner_bg {
width: 982px;
background: #FFF url(images/top_inner_bg.gif) no-repeat top; height: 9px;
}
#sides_inner_bg {
width: 982px;
background: #CCC url(images/vert_inner_bg.gif) repeat-x top; /* img ht is 2000px; it's supposed to fade transp after 770px; no sure if correct way to do this */
}
#bot_inner_bg {
margin: auto;
width: 980px;
height: 100%;
background: #E8E7E3;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<!-- header -->
<div id="header">
header here
</div>
<!-- body -->
<div id="body_container">
<div id="top_inner_bg"> </div>
<div id="sides_inner_bg">
<div id="bot_inner_bg">
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<p>test</p>
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I looked for a solution and found something on margin overflow. I tried overflow: hidden;, but that didn't work. My divs don't float either, so the clearfix doesn't work for me. When I add a border to the divs, it works - but, well, now I have a border, and I don't want one, as I need the side images to seamlessly join up with the top_inner_bg div.
Help please!
Thanks.
-Stephen