need help with custom css, floated divs, and display of posts

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  liamomalley · Member · Nov 19, 2007 at 9:58 pm

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  Hi,

  First time posting on here, and I’m pretty new to WordPress in general. I’m not particularly new to CSS though.

  My page (under development) is here: http://www.liamandamanda.com. It has not been launched yet.

  The problem that I’m having is that the main content div, which displays the content of the posts and is on the left hand side of my box (you’ll see on the page), does not want to extend down to the bottom of any posts that might be displayed for whichever category you’re looking at.

  Normally, with css floats I would use a div that clears both columns (to push the bottom of the box below the content), the content div and the sidebar div, but this didn’t quite do the trick I was looking for. So I used the overflow property to estimate the results that I wanted. I’m not too familiar with overflow, and it seems that it is cutting off my content before I want it to. I want the div to adjust to whatever amount of content comes up depending on which category/month is being viewed.

  My stylesheets are here:
  http://www.liamandamanda.com/blog/wp-content/themes/gone-fishing-10/style.css
  http://www.liamandamanda.com/blog/wp-content/themes/gone-fishing-10/ie7style.css
  http://www.liamandamanda.com/blog/wp-content/themes/gone-fishing-10/ie6style.css

  Thanks in advance for any suggestions and advice!

  -Liam

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  liamomalley · Member · Nov 19, 2007 at 9:59 pm

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  Sorry – page is here: http://www.liamandamanda.com/blog.

  Also, for an example of how the content/overflow is getting chopped, look at the September archives.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2007 at 10:11 pm

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  This blog is not a wordpress.com free hosted blog http://www.liamandamanda.com/blog/
  We provide support here only for free hosted wrodpress.com bloggers.

  If you have downloaded software from http://wordpress.org then know that it is different than our software here. The support forum for self hosting bloggers is here http://wordpress.org/support

  HTH :)

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  liamomalley · Member · Nov 19, 2007 at 10:14 pm

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  Yeah, I just read the sticky post about the .com vs. .org difference… sorry for the time-waster.

  Thanks for the other link. I’ll head that way!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2007 at 10:20 pm

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  Thanks for the thanks and happy blogging.
  P.S. Will you please use the option in your original post to mark this thread “resolved”?

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  liamomalley · Member · Nov 19, 2007 at 10:24 pm

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  I have marked it resolved now, but feel free to delete it entirely if you wish =)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2007 at 10:56 pm

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  Thanks :)