Larry Piper's Slothoughts

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Overflow:auto—that was easy · 23 May 2009

Yikes, I’d set this stupid thing up well over a year ago, but only recently noticed that my navigation bars were sticking outside the overall page borders on two of the pages, one with no content, and one with minimal content.

My cyber friend, @chorell just discovered that one could fix such barbarities by setting overflow:auto; for a style on the outer container div. So I tried it, and it worked. Thus, I now have
<div id="cont_container" style="overflow:auto;">
and I’m good to go.

Now the only thing to fix is the stupid in-line styling, but I’m too lazy to go to the trouble of loading my style sheet in a text editor, fixing the text, firing up my ftp client, sending the file to my server, etc. Of course, I could just use sexyFileManager to edit directly on the server, but then I’d run into the same problem that happened last time I did that: later on, more extensive overall edits to the site will over write the minor corrections because I forgot to sync what I’d fixed on the server with what I had on my hard drive. Then things that once were fixed will become broken again. Gah!

addendum:
It turns out that I could probably have accomplished the same thing by adding class="clear" to my footer, i.e.
<div id="footer" class="clear">
No worries, things are better indeed.

— lgpiper

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