I don't use slick edit. I

andrewtayloruk — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:30:00 +0000

I don't use slick edit. I use Coda for the Mac. http://www.panic.com/coda/

I've never touched an online editor in my life, i prefer to stick to the command line and VI.

Thankfully i was only using slick edit on a friends laptop and wont be needing it again.

andrewtayloruk wrote: I

netsperience — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:26:16 +0000

andrewtayloruk wrote:

I already comment my start and end tags.....

I don't see what you mean about code ending up without indents. My issue was with Slick edit trying to indent everything it's way rather than letting me do it manually.

you used the bbcode tags and not the html ones for <code> - or you can use the Code button in the editor toolbar here

and if you want to show a tag here with <sometag> you need to use the html entities < > to open and close the tag

regarding losing indents, for example if you edit your file in the file manager editor on your control panel interface, or sometimes if you download the file certain ways, you might lose the formatting.. or view it in other encoding eg view a utf8 encoded file with ansi encoding, possibly, I think - I just know I have seen the indents go away in certain situations

Slick edit sounds not so slick - use a good text editor that doesn't "help" you too much - I use EditPlus

I already comment my start

andrewtayloruk — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:14:53 +0000

I already comment my start and end tags.....

I don't see what you mean about code ending up without indents. My issue was with Slick edit trying to indent everything it's way rather than letting me do it manually.

you can comment your end

netsperience — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:41:51 +0000

you can comment your end tags if it gets confusing

indenting is also a good idea, Andrew, but sometimes the code will end up without the indents and then what?

hehe, i indent all my code

andrewtayloruk — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:37:38 +0000

hehe, i indent all my code so it's usually easy to spot missing tags.

I was using slick edit on a friends machine and it was a right pain in the backside to use. When you open a tag it automatically adds the closing tag 2 lines beneath. Great, but if you press the down arrow it puts another div in between the tag you just opened and the closing tag.

I loaded the code in Coda at home and instead of nice and tidy code i was presented with a mess which led me to check the tags.

I guess i should have run a css validator on it and it would have flagged the extra tags.

Glad you got it sorted. My

greg — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:19:04 +0000

Glad you got it sorted.

My head hurts sometimes with end tags for multiple divs in divs, especially when each div is full of PHP doing if's echoes and whatnot!

Thanks for the reply greg.

andrewtayloruk — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:48:30 +0000

Thanks for the reply greg. It wasn't a problem with clearing the floats at all. I used an editor i wasn't familiar with and somehow ended up with a couple of closing tags that shouldn't have been there.

I removed those and it fixed the issue. I didn't notice these were here until i opened the code in my usual editor and none of the stuff relating to the floats were indented.

Doh!

I guess more advanced CSS

greg — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:32:35 +0000

I guess more advanced CSS coders (*cough* Megan) will usually get it right first time or know what the error is, but I often have situations like you where I am left scratching my head.

So when I use float in CSS, and a problem occurs with layout, I often stick a different coloured border around each of the divs.
border: 1px solid red, border: 1px solid green
etc

Most times this reveals the issue to me - a div is too wide/high or not floating properly etc
It usually shows me that the top level parent div needs to be floated left to get the floating child divs to actually go inside the parent div

At quick glance at your code, I notice you have a div with margin left auto, then inside that div you have a div that floats left, this child div floating left will push the parent div to the left and stop its auto left margin.
In my experience anyway. This might not be what is supposed to happen and I just have something else wrong somewhere.

One other thing I found which someone else here might be able to add an explanation for, when using a layout like Andrew's with a floating div inside a floating div inside a non floating div, I often find the float doesn't work as expected.
Then when I float: left the top level parent div as well, it corrects the float on the child divs (the ones the parent contains).

I do find divs a bit weird sometimes in the logic they are structured, and more so when using float on them.
For example, one occasion I had a floated div inside a non floated div, but to float the child div correctly and remain inside the parent div and stretch the parent div as you would expect I had to clear floats BEFORE the child div code, even though I hadn't set any floats UNTIL I drew the child div.
Weird.

Hello Andrew, Since this is

netsperience — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:50:29 +0000

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