Hello,

I've spent about an hour searching to see if anyone else has had this problem. I haven't used ANY tables in my new skin. Everything is done with CSS. It has been a huge struggle and I've been tempted over and over to go back to tables when stuff didn't work right, but I've perservered! I finally have forced myself to figure out how to make the floats work. Everything on my page is sitting where I told it to!

But, if I insert a module into one of the content panes, the other panes above and below it that are empty don't collapse. With table-based content panes, this was never a problem.

I hope someone cal help me with this. I don't want to go back to using tables for my panes after all this effort!

Here's a link to the working page if it helps: www.amgdraftinganddesign.com

Here's one expample of my css for a pane. All my panes are the same as below except maybe different widths or some float left and some float right.

#contentPane

{
clear: both;
background-color: transparent;
width: 100%;
position: relative;
float: left;
text-align: center;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding: 0;
color: black;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
z-index: 3;
height: auto; }

Thank you for your suggestion. However, adding that to my code did nothing at all.

More research shows the following facts:

     1. display: none;    /* makes your object not display, and doesn't reserve any space for it so it is totally invisible
     2. visibility: hidden   /* makes your object not display, but, space is reserved for it on the page so it leaves an empty space
     3. visibility: collapse   /* makes your object not display, but doesn't reserve any space for it so it is totally collapsed

Problem: Version 1 hides it completely. Version 2 leaves unwanted space on the page. Version 3 is a nice idea that isn't supported by any browsers that I could find.

So how do we make a css div contentpane collapse at runtime? Surely someone has figured this out, or are we still using tables for our content panes? If we are, I could have saved alot of time and headache just going ahead and using tables. I'd have been done with this project a week ago.

Someone please give me some useful advice?

Thanks!

~Bee