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Why with this css the background-color attribute doesn't work?

Answer 1

+4 A:

Floated elements don't influence the height of their container. You are experiencing a bug in IE because you are not triggering Standards mode is a reasonably modern Doctype.

See complex spiral for an explanation as to why things work this way and Ed Elliot's blog for a number of better ways to count floats in the height.

David Dorward 2010-10-13 14:04:36

uhm. If i write float:left; on #ROOT i can see that background change. But the main div go to the left, and is not more centered :(

markzzz 2010-10-13 14:07:24

Your answer is in his articles, try reading them.

Tim 2010-10-13 14:10:23

So don't float the root! There are other approaches, you picked the 4th in the list at Ed's blog. I'd generally use the overflow method myself.

David Dorward 2010-10-13 14:10:35

oh yeah!! overflow:auto works :) I'll use this, i don't care about IE for mac :)

markzzz 2010-10-13 14:16:23

Answer 2

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Try to assign height to the divs.

Júlio Santos 2010-10-13 14:05:58

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