[development] Re: Patches

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 15:26 +0200, Steven Wittens wrote:
> >
> > I say this even though I am a CSS zealot and have created several  
> > non CMS sites which have no tables and would do them no other way.   
> > I ended up using a single table in my design because in order to  
> > get the footer in the right place the left and right columns were  
> > floated.  Once you have floated columns you cannot use clear in the  
> > content because the content will then clear the columns which is  
> > not what you want.  You need to be able to use clear in the content  
> > so that you can float multiple images to one side and have them  
> > appear under on another which requires clear.
> 
> Non-sense. The piefecta layout and many others (such as drupal.org  
> itself) are 100% tableless and can accomodate clears in the content.
> 
> Steven Wittens

You may need an additional wrapper around you content to constrain the
clear, or a parent with position: relative. I can't remember.