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preahkumpii
preahkumpii

Reputation: 1301

Overflow:auto with floats AND overflow:visible

I am trying to make two floated divs with box-shadow to display the shadows outside of their container. It won't display because their parent has overflow: auto set, which cuts off the shadow, but is nevertheless necessary so the parent won't collapse because both child divs are floated. If I set the parent to overflow: visible it collapses, obviously, because the children are floated. Thanks for any help.
JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/zJGVz/

HTML

<div id='parent'>
  <div id='child1'></div>
  <div id='child2'></div>
</div>

CSS:

#parent {
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 200px;
  background: green;
  overflow: auto;
}
#child1 {
  width: 150px;
  height: 200px;
  float: left;
  background: pink;
  box-shadow: 0 0 10px 0 #000000;
}
#child2 {
  width: 30px;
  height: 200px;
  float: left;
  margin-left: 20px;
  background: blue;
  box-shadow: 0 0 10px 0 #000000;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 102

Answers (2)

Cattsan
Cattsan

Reputation: 145

You can add a 5px margin to both children on the sides that touch the edge of the parent.

#child1 {
  width: 700px;
  float: left;
  box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 #000000;
  margin:0 0 5px 5px;
}
#child2 {
  width: 300px;
  float: left;
  box-shadow: 0 0 5px 0 #000000;
  margin:0 5px 5px 0;
}

See the JSFiddle.

Upvotes: 1

Bobby
Bobby

Reputation: 2928

Try changing the overflow to 'visible'

overflow: visible;

Upvotes: 0

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