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Float / Clear / Div / Alignment

Zones: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible HTML (XHTML)
Tags: css html, float clear css html
Hi -
I can get the code to work most of the time inline, but not with css. How can I make the attached divs float to the left and the right, as displayed, but align to the top? If they align to the top, I assume then the divs would look to be on the same line. I have tried floats and clears, but just can not get it to work.
Thanks,
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<!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 content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>Home | About Us | Sign Up | Tour</title>
<style type="text/css">
.navigation {
	width: 750px;
	margin:0px;
	height:75px;
	background-color:aqua;
	
}
 
.navigation.search {
	margin:0px;
	float:right;
	width:auto;
 
}
 
</style>
</head>
 
<body>
 
	<div class="navigation">Home | About Us | Sign Up | Tour | Help
	<div class="navigation search">
			<!-- Search Google Start -->
			<center>
			<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" target="google_window">
			<a href="http://www.google.com/">
			<img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif" border="0" alt="Google"></img></a>
			<label for="sbi" style="display: none">Enter your search terms</label>
			<input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" id="sbi"></input>
			<label for="sbb" style="display: none">Submit search form</label>
			<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" id="sbb"></input>
			<input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-9923779901903876"></input>
			<input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1"></input>
			<input type="hidden" name="channel" value="1981285639"></input>
			<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
			<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
			<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1"></input>
			<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"></input>
			</form>
			</center>
			<!-- Search Google End -->
 
	
	</div></div>
	
</body>
 
</html>
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Zone: Web Development
Question Asked By: prtllc
Solution Provided By: landship
Participating Experts: 2
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Comment by prtllc
Thanks.
 
 
Comment by zemond
You do not need to specify the width, you can archeive the full width of an undenfined area by using margins
 
 
Comment by landship
It is best practice to always specify the width of a floated element, how do you achieve full width using margins?

I've used padding before, but that requires hacks in IE 5 and complicates things.
 
 
Comment by zemond
gday landship ill dig up my old code, and send it on through

 
 
Comment by zemond
Gday Landship, i wont go into too much detail you are an expert should be able to figure out urself

here is the page

http://sapcookbook.com

the center box is a floated div that scales,

here is the theory

the width of the block element (div) is set to 100%; and in my example, i have 2 blocks either side, with a set width, if for example the width is 200, then position expandable div and margin-left:200px;

Its slightly more complicated then that, but works the treat, FF, IE, Safari, and a few others i tested,

The code may be slightly dirty, it is an old site
 
 
Comment by landship
I think you may have sent the wrong link, all 3 columns scale since they are floated left and have their width set as percentages.
 
 
Comment by zemond
Ahh dang your right, Ill find the actual one, If i cannot, ill write up the script for you.
 
 
Comment by zemond
http://www.sapcookbook.com/sap-access.com/home/
 
 
Comment by landship
ok, I see now, with position absolute for the left column. Thanks for the follow-up zemond.

I originally thought you meant a way with margins, floats and relative positions so I was curious to see how you worked it out, but this makes sense.
 
 
Comment by zemond
Hmm its been a while since i wrote that, I am using margins arnt I? with floated divs

Ahh well I know it works, its div's not tables, and is cross browser. All is well.
 
 
Comment by landship
All is well, and it was using margins.
 
 
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