Divs side by side and tableless tempate issues :-(

[meridianblade]

Alright, I run a joomla site and im working on making a 100% tableless xhtml compliant template. I'm very new at this so im trying my best to learn.

I used the Lean version of skidoo's layout as the base and then added all the appropriate php tags needed to make it a joomla template. For the one part I need two modules to load right next to each other near the top of the page to mimic the table version of the Latest News and Popular Modules. I'll show you code snipits of how I did it.

html:
      <div id="contentColumn">
        <div class="inside">
          <!-- middle column content begin -->
          <p class="blocktext">
            <?php mosLoadModules( 'banner', -1 ); ?>
          </p>
          <div id="users">
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user1' ); ?>
          </div>
          <div id="users">
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user2' ); ?>
          </div>
          <p>
          <div id="nofloat">
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'top' ); ?>
            <?php mosMainBody(); ?>
            <?php mosLoadModules ( 'bottom' ); ?>
          </div>

css:

/*top users */
#users {
    float:left;
	width: 300px;

}
#nofloat {
	float: none;
	
}

So anyways this does indeed put each div tag side by side but my problem is that I need the following PHP code ( <?php mosLoadModules ( 'top' ); ?> <?php mosMainBody(); ?> <?php mosLoadModules ( 'bottom' ); ?>) to return to the next line after the div's, but instead it jumps everything to the right and breaks the template. So I added the nofloat css and that fixed it and put the rest of the content below the side by side div's but now it doesn't work in FireFox. Now I tried padding-top and that worked in both browsers, but its not flexible as the side by side div modules are not always there and I don't want 200px of white space on the pages that don't show it. Also as a side note I tried putting <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user1' ); ?> and user2 into separate div tags that that floated left and right but it had the same outcome, so I stuck with one float left that seems to work the same.

My question is what can I do to make this content show after the side by side div's and not beside it in both browsers?

You can see what I mean by looking at this test site in both IE 6 and FireFox.
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.wii-volution.com/testbed/[/URL]

Thanks for any help you guys can give me! :cheers:

 

[Vragabond]

If you want to stop element from floating -- being next to a floated element, you should use [tt]clear: left;[/tt] rather than float: none;. The latter is just the normal way all the elements are behaving.