Topic: Floating <div>s and BG Colors in NN4

Okay, does anyone know how to achieve a right float image or div like http://www.coffman.umn.edu/springjam/ without having text run underneath it in Netscape? I can't even tell exactly when it happens, but it happens whether I use the CSS float property or just the div or image align=right.

The other thing is background colors. Is there any reliable way to make a background color of a div in NN4? Or do I need to just use tables.

-jiblet

I don't expect there to be an end-all solution to this problem, even some insight to why it happens would be cool...

-jiblet

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Don't know much about NN4, because I really don't give a fudge for it. However, you could try putting the image inside a box (nested), then specify your requirements for that. Whether NN4 would accept that I've no idea...

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Well, I am not actually using the FLOAT property per se, but rather the standard HTML align="right" attribute. I did try using the CSS float property, and using a table around the image, none of them changed the behaviour in Netscape. The curious part was that the overlapping only seemed to occur on the second line of the second paragraph (ie, it didn't break when it got to the image, but just continued under it). Coincidentally there was a link at that point, which may offer some clue.

I've run in to this problem in Netscape from time to time, but still haven't pinned down a hard set of circumstances that causes it.

Anyway, I have updated this page and the new format doesn't have a problem in Netscape, so I guess problem solved.

I will however, make use of the background color setting method InI, thanks. I've just been using background-color: #FFFFFF attributes.



-jiblet

I can't speak to the CSS or <div> issue, but text running behind an image aligned right is a known issue in NS4 when the image tag is contained within a paragraph.

So rather than,

<p><img align="right" ... >text ... </p>

use two lines, as in

<img align="right" ... >
<p>text ... </p>

Maybe this one isn't what you were running up against, but it is consistent behavior. It seems to lay out the text then plunk the image over it without reflowing the text. This forces it to place the image first, then flow the text around it. I wouldn't be suprised to find a similar issue and similar solution in CSS.

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Firstly, NN4 sucks big time. If you can muster the will to let it die then please do.

Secondly, Float doesn't work in NN4. Well it kinda does but it's that buggy it's just not worth the trouble. Trust me, I've tried.

Thirdly, using align on div's & Images also causes problems in NN4. If you want your text to wrap around an aligned image you should just do it the old school way. Put the text and the image into a table then use the align attribute on an image. If this still sin't working then I'll need to see the page first hand to figure it out.

As for the background colours in NN4 well, is actually has two CSS attributes for the background colour of a layer:

background-color : your color
layer-background-color : your color

The background-color property refers to the background colour of the 'Text' only. The layer-background-color refers to the whole layer. Then you'll most likely have the problem of the layer-background-colorspilling out over the entire screen from the right of the layer. Yet another 'bug'... yay! To fix this you need to set the layers clip properties.

Oh, and try not to use the "<" and ">" characters in the topics of your threads in the future. It makes it impossible to edit your posts. Otherwise I would have fixed up the typo's above.