I’ve tried everything I could think of to make this happen but I can’t make it work. Stuff just jumps around and will not line up. I have CSS on. I’ve created a wrapper with nested html items and tried Floats and Clears in every combination imaginable, except, apparently, the right one. What the hell does “Clear” mean anyway? It’s so frustrating! I don’t know how there are any pages on the internet. Really!
Can someone give me a clue how to make this work? Please.
Well, in a nested layout “clears” are in reference to how other nested items relate to each other when put together like in a container or wrapper. So if you were to set a clear to “left” then any other items that had a float set to “left” in the same container would be “on the next line.”
So, let’s say, you inserted three nested items into a container or wrapper item. You then set the first one to float:left and clear:none then the nested item below it would be put up against the first nested item horizontally. If you were to do the same float and clear for the second item then the third box would come up.
If you wanted to then have the third box “clear” both the two previous nested items then you’d set the third item have a clear of “both” thus saying that you want this box to clear both left and right floated items. Float chooses the direction, either left or right of other items and clear sets the position hierarchy related to other items in the stacking order.
Some saint sent me a FW file that is exactly what I wanted (I’m not going to reveal who for fear of a hundred other people asking him for files).
I have items view selected in the Site pane and I’m studying how he did it. It looks so simple, yet, I was unable to accomplish it on my own.
I’m so happy to have this forum and receive such wonderful help. I’ll try not to be a pain, but this web design stuff is extremely confusing to me, and it’s not for lack of study and reading and experimenting. I just don’t get it.
Oh, the joys of InDesign and paper. I can’t wait to do the layout for another book.
