#float left

Internet Explorer 8, float left removes background color

I’ve a question how to solve that in IE8 a background color is removed when setting float left in CSS:

My page #nav { margin: 100px auto; text-align: center; } #nav ul ul { display: none; } #nav ul li:hover > ul { display: block; } #nav ul {

This 18-Month-Old Snowboarder Is Tearin’ It Up On The Bunny Hill

She may be tiny, but 18-month-old Aspen is already cruisin’ on the slopes.

Mom Jill Haight used to snowboard competitively, so when it came time to teach her then 10-month-old daughter a winter sport, she and her husband chose to put their baby on a board, not skis. “We are from Breckenridge, Colorado, so living in a ski town it just a seemed natural to get Aspen out on the mountain as soon as…

Read about this in the Rockable Press "Building Wordpress Themes from Scratch" book, he quotes Dan Cederholm on this and I think it's a great idea:

So for developing WP themes we need to have some pretty generic class naming, so we want the following:

.left{

float:left;

}

.right{

float:right;

}

To ensure that these classes don't do anything they aren't supposed to, like extend past where they should let's clear them, but let's take a different approach.

.group:after{

content:".";

display:block;

height:0;

clear:both;

visibility:hidden;

}

So if we used these in our code it would look something like this:

<div id="mainContainer" class="group">

     <div class="left">Left-floated Class</div>

     <div class="right">RIght-floated Class</div>

</div>

Instead of using the empty div clearing, or even clear-fix this mainContainer div will clear after itself.  But what about older browsers that don't like the whole pseudo-class selector?  Of course we have a fix!

* html .group{ /* This fixes is up IE6 if you still support it */

height:1%;

}

*:first-child+html .group{ /* This is the IE7 fix */

min-height:1px;

}