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spicymango

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May 25, 2008
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Hi,

I have three <div>

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
  <TITLE> New Document </TITLE>
  <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="EditPlus">
  <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="">
  <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="">
  <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="">
 </HEAD>

 <BODY>
 <div id="container" style="width:500px;height:700px;background-color:green;">
	 <div id="one" style="float:left;width:100px;background-color:#ff9900; ">one<br>one<br>one<br>one<br>one<br>one<br>one<br></div> 
	 <div id="three" style="float:right;width:100px;background-color:red;">three </div> 
	 <div id="two" style="float:left;width:70%;background-color:#ff9988;">two jdfk hnldncf ddhf sd ohdnfc kbldhcv ohsvnskd hvjnsdhv hviopsdhv kbhopvd v onksdnv oln;sdmnv m;mv mnml;vm  vm;klf kdfl'gl;v 'fg 'kdf'kvb'l ;'lfk</div>
	
 </div>
 </BODY>
</HTML>

I noticed when I increased the % width of my <div two> it goes below my <div three>

I was under the impression it should just stay at the same level and text should wrap around my div three? But I guess that's not the case. Am I doing the something wrong or is this the expected behavior?


 
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I was playing with it and I noticed that if you remove the "float:left;" from the style for div two, then it will wrap (Although the width % then seems to mean something different than what it did when you include "float:left;". Try "width:90%;" instead).
 
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You have 3 divs in a wrapper (#container) that's 500px wide.

Div one is 100px wide.

Div 2 is 70% of its container. that's 70% of 500px; so 350px wide.

Div 3 is 100px wide.

That's 450px total, they fit fine next to each other inside the 500px wide div with 50px to spare.

If you increase the width of div two, it goes beyond the 500px limit set by your wrapper. For example: if you set it to 80% instead of 70% then that's 400px wide plus 200px from the other 2 divs is 600px wide in a 500px container. So it drops down as you'd expect it because it can't fit.

Do you need your wrapper to be 500px wide? Can you make it bigger? Does your div two need to be set in percentage?



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Thanks a lot for your replies, I thought I was doing something wrong, or missing something, I guess it is behaving as it should as width is not wide enough.
 
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