2 column alignment issue? [Archive]

MegShmeg

02-05-2007, 02:04 PM

I'm trying to use a 2 column layout for Blogger, and everything seems to be fine except when I add content to my left column, the portion on the right has a huge gap at the top (like it's getting forced down because of the left content) -- I'll make notes in the code. Sorry that I don't have an actual example besides the code, also that the Blogger code is included:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>The Weeping Willow Diaries</title>
<$BlogMetaData$>
<style type="text/css">
#navbar-iframe {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}

body {
background-image:url('http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b304/mddelong/pattern_022.gif');
background-repeat: repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
font-size: 13px;
font-family: Trebuchet MS, Arial, SunSans-Regular, Sans-Serif;
color:#4A4A4A;
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
}

a {
color: #DB7093;}
a:visited {color:#DB7093;}
a:hover {color: #564b47;}
a:active { color:#000000;
}

h1 {
font-size: 11px;
text-transform:uppercase;
background-color: #B3CC99;
border-top:1px solid #564b47;
border-bottom:1px solid #564b47;
padding:5px 15px;
margin:0px;
color: #ffffff;
}

h2 {
font-size:13px;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: small-caps;
padding: 5px 10px;
margin:0px;
color: #000000;
}

h3 {
font-size:15px;
font-style: italic;
padding: 5px 10 px;
margin:0px;
color: #4A4A4A;
}

/* ----------container to center the layout-------------- */

#container {
width: 800px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-color: #ffffff;
}

/* ----------banner for logo-------------- */
#banner {
background-color: #ffffff;
text-align: left;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
border-right: 1px dotted black;
border-left: 1px dotted black;
border-top: 1px dotted black;
}

#banner img {padding:10px 0px;}

/* -----------------content--------------------- */
#content {
background-color: #ffffff;
padding: 0px;
margin-left: 200px;
margin-right: 0px;
border-right: 1px dotted black;
padding: 10px 20px;
}

div#content {
min-height:600px;
height:expression(this.scrollHeight > 600 ? "auto":"600px");
}

/* --------------left navi------------- */
#left {
float: left;
background-color: #ffffff;
width: 200px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 10px 10px;
border-left: 1px dotted black;
border-right: 1px dotted gray;
}

/* -----------footer--------------------------- */
#footer {
clear: both;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: right;
}
</style>

</head>

<body>

<div id="container">
<div id="banner" >
<img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b304/mddelong/wwheader.png" border="0" />
<h1></h1>
</div>

<div id="left">
<h2>Previously...</h2>
<BloggerPreviousItems>
<a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>">
<$BlogPreviousItemTitle$>
</a><br />
</BloggerPreviousItems>
</div>

<div id="content">

<Blogger>
<h3><BlogItemTitle>
<$BlogItemTitle$>
</BlogItemTitle>:</h3>
<h2><BlogDateHeader>
<$BlogDateHeaderDate$>
</BlogDateHeader></h2>
***********THE HUGE GAP HAPPENS RIGHT HERE, BETWEEN THE HEADER AND THE POST TEXT****************
<$BlogItemBody$>

<h2>Until next (xo!) -
<$BlogItemAuthorNickname$>.</h2>

</Blogger>

</div>

<div id="footer"><h1></h1>

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</div>
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</body>
</html>