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Containing Floats (Redux)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Nothing about this post is new or unknown to many people much smarter than myself. I don’t usually post CSS solutions here because there are fantastic resources out there already. This CSS problem is simple - an outer div contains floats. The floats pop out the bottom of the div and this is shown best by putting a simple border on the div to show its got no height. This is exactly what’s meant to happen. Although, in Internet Explorer the float is contained.

But if we’ve got a situation where we want floated content to stay wrapped within the div what do we do?

Problem: Uncontained float is not inside the div

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Information and Data Modelling (Second Edition) by David Benyon (Cover)With an eye toward implementing another web interface database solution from the ground up I'm casually revisiting David Benyon's Information and Data Modelling (Second Edition). Its critical to have a solid understanding of conceptual data modelling and knowing how to identify various things like fan traps and three way traps very early in the process. To that end, while its fine to have a basic understanding of third normal form and general ideas about relations (that which relational databases rely on), its also a great idea to spend time exploring the theory and case studies that lead to a higher understanding.

Often people I deal with just snuff their nose and say they can design a database - but often its a very naive approach. Having read this book about four years ago its time for a quick refresher over my holiday period. No, I doubt few will envy me.