Floating: can you please explain something to me!!

[tayiper]

Okay folks, as a some sort of an addition to the I need something very basic explained about CSS thread that I've opened here on DP forums recently (but never mind it, i.e. now I already understand what I was asking there about), I am asking about floating vs. non-floating in my (imeaning my website's) particular case ...


You see, today I added the "div#content" to my website's index.html page's (well and of course, to all the other pages that have the same layout too) sheet1.css style-sheet file; basically I did it just to wrap the "div" around the main content area, which I thought would be logical thing to do. And surely after testing the code a bit (namely, trying out various values for "padding", "height", "width" properties), the layout is exactly as I intended it to be, and similar to what it was before, please also see below.


Here are the links to the old index-old.html page, and to the old sheet1-old.css style-sheet file.


Now my question is the following: if now "div#menu" is floated to left, and "div#content" floated to right (so that the layout is like I wanted it), how come that even before doing these changes (i.e. with only the menu being wrapped into the "div", and of course, floated to left), the text/main content that I now also wrapped into the "div", was displayed beside the menu anyways (i.e. on its right side), i.e. even without explicitly floating it to the right??!


P.S. - Although it's true that in fact I do *somehow* suspect what might be the reason for this, I'm asking it here anyway just to be completely sure!!


tayiper

[mcfox]

Originally Posted by tayiper

Now my question is the following: if now "div#menu" is floated to left, and "div#content" floated to right (so that the layout is like I wanted it), how come that even before doing these changes (i.e. with only the menu being wrapped into the "div", and of course, floated to left), the text/main content that I now also wrapped into the "div", was displayed beside the menu anyways (i.e. on its right side), i.e. even without explicitly floating it to the right??!

It simply slotted into the first available space on the page, which happened to be next to the menu.

[tayiper]

Originally Posted by mcfox

It simply slotted into the first available space on the page, which happened to be next to the menu.

Ahhhh thanks much mcfox, so it is pretty much as I've speculated/suspected ...


tayiper