CSS LiqLay #2.1 Clear Float Issues

**pinch** · 01-25-2011, 02:04 AM

I am using this code to create my 2 column layout. The problem is that, sometimes in my main content area I want to use floats. However, when I clear those floats (<div style='clear:both'/>) within the Content Column, the left column disappears completely in both IE and Firefox.

Any way around this?

Code:

Code:

<!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Dynamic Drive: CSS Liquid Layout #2.1- (Fixed-Fluid)</title>
<style type="text/css">

body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

b{font-size: 110%;}
em{color: red;}


#topsection{
background: #EAEAEA;
height: 90px; /*Height of top section*/
}

#topsection h1{
margin: 0;
padding-top: 15px;
}

#contentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

#contentcolumn{
margin-left: 200px; /*Set left margin to LeftColumnWidth*/
background-color:Aqua;
}

#leftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 200px; /*Width of left column*/
margin-left: -100%;
background: #C8FC98;
}

#footer{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background: black;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px 0;
}

#footer a{
color: #FFFF80;
}

.innertube{
margin: 10px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each column (to provide padding)*/
margin-top: 0;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*** Temporary text filler function. Remove when deploying template. ***/
var gibberish=["This is just some filler text", "Welcome to Dynamic Drive CSS Library", "Demo content nothing to read here"]
function filltext(words){
for (var i=0; i<words; i++)
document.write(gibberish[Math.floor(Math.random()*3)]+" ")
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="maincontainer">

<div id="topsection"><div class="innertube"><h1>CSS Liquid Layout #2.1- (Fixed-Fluid)</h1></div></div>

<div id="contentwrapper">
<div id="contentcolumn">
<div class="innertube">

  <!-- My Code -->
  <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:orange;">
    Left Column
  </div>
  <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:pink;">
    Right Column  
  </div>
  <div style="clear:both;"/>

  
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div id="leftcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Left Column: <em>200px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(15)</script></div>

</div>

<div id="footer"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">Dynamic Drive CSS Library</a></div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

**Deadweight** · 01-26-2011, 12:22 AM

try this. =p

Code:

<!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Dynamic Drive: CSS Liquid Layout #2.1- (Fixed-Fluid)</title>
<style type="text/css">

body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

b{font-size: 110%;}
em{color: red;}


#topsection{
background: #EAEAEA;
height: 90px; /*Height of top section*/
}

#topsection h1{
margin: 0;
padding-top: 15px;
}

#contentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

#contentcolumn{
margin-left: 200px; /*Set left margin to LeftColumnWidth*/
background-color:Aqua;
}

#leftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 200px; /*Width of left column*/
margin-left: -100%;
background: #C8FC98;
}

#footer{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background: black;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px 0;
}

#footer a{
color: #FFFF80;
}

.innertube{
margin: 10px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each column (to provide padding)*/
margin-top: 0;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*** Temporary text filler function. Remove when deploying template. ***/
var gibberish=["This is just some filler text", "Welcome to Dynamic Drive CSS Library", "Demo content nothing to read here"]
function filltext(words){
for (var i=0; i<words; i++)
document.write(gibberish[Math.floor(Math.random()*3)]+" ")
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="maincontainer">

<div id="topsection"><div class="innertube"><h1>CSS Liquid Layout #2.1- (Fixed-Fluid)</h1></div></div>

<div id="contentwrapper">
<div id="contentcolumn">


  <!-- My Code -->
  <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:orange;">
    Left Column
  </div>
  <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:pink;">
    Right Column  
  </div>
  

  
</div>
</div>



<div id="leftcolumn">
<div class="innertube"><b>Left Column: <em>200px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(15)</script></div>

</div>

<div id="footer"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">Dynamic Drive CSS Library</a></div>

</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

**pinch** · 01-26-2011, 01:59 AM

That solved the problem thanks. I'm seeing one more oddity with your code: If I add a header element to the top of the content area, an extra margin gets added to the top of the content area which pushes everything down. If I add any other text to the top of the content area, or even a div, this doesn't happen, but headers seem to throw things off:

Code:

<!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Dynamic Drive: CSS Liquid Layout #2.1- (Fixed-Fluid)</title>
<style type="text/css">

body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

b{font-size: 110%;}
em{color: red;}


#topsection{
background: #EAEAEA;
height: 90px; /*Height of top section*/
}

#topsection h1{
margin: 0;
padding-top: 15px;
}

#contentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

#contentcolumn{
margin-left: 200px; /*Set left margin to LeftColumnWidth*/
background-color:Aqua;
}

#leftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 200px; /*Width of left column*/
margin-left: -100%;
background: #C8FC98;
}

#footer{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background: black;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px 0;
}

#footer a{
color: #FFFF80;
}

.innertube{
margin: 10px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each column (to provide padding)*/
margin-top: 0;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*** Temporary text filler function. Remove when deploying template. ***/
var gibberish=["This is just some filler text", "Welcome to Dynamic Drive CSS Library", "Demo content nothing to read here"]
function filltext(words){
for (var i=0; i<words; i++)
document.write(gibberish[Math.floor(Math.random()*3)]+" ")
}
</script>

</head>
<body>

<div id="maincontainer">
  <div id="topsection">
    <div class="innertube">
      <h1>CSS Liquid Layout #2.1- (Fixed-Fluid)</h1>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div id="contentwrapper">
    <div id="contentcolumn">
        <h1>Test</h1>
    
        <!-- My Code -->
        <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:orange;">
          Left Column
        </div>
        <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:pink;">
          Right Column  
        </div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div id="leftcolumn">
    <div class="innertube"><b>Left Column: <em>200px</em></b> 
    </div>
  </div>

  <div id="footer"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">Dynamic Drive CSS Library</a>
  </div>

</div>

</body>
</html>

**pinch** · 01-26-2011, 01:18 PM

The problem I detailed is visible in the most recent versions of both Firefox and IE.

**Deadweight** · 01-27-2011, 04:42 AM

Well here is something i tried and tell me if this is what u wanted

Code:

<div id="contentwrapper">
    <div id="contentcolumn">
        <div style="float:left;width:100%;background-color:orange;">
          Top Column
        </div>
    
        <!-- My Code -->
        <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:orange;">
          Left Column
        </div>
        <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:pink;">
          Right Column  
        </div>
    </div>
  </div>

**pinch** · 01-27-2011, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by Crazykld69

Well here is something i tried and tell me if this is what u wanted

Code:

<div id="contentwrapper">
    <div id="contentcolumn">
        <div style="float:left;width:100%;background-color:orange;">
          Top Column
        </div>
    
        <!-- My Code -->
        <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:orange;">
          Left Column
        </div>
        <div style="float:left;width:50%;background-color:pink;">
          Right Column  
        </div>
    </div>
  </div>

It was a simple issue regarding the header margins. I thought I had them set to zero but there was a typo.

Thanks again for the feedback.