Forcing div's to stay the same size?

[MagSafe]

Hi

I'm designing a website and have one of those annoying problems where I have 2 columns / div's, with a header above them and a footer below.

The left column is set to 200px, and the right 600px, which exist inside the container of size 800px. Basically the problem is that if I were to place an image of 601px within the right column, the entire column would drop right below the page content and set itself at 800px ... so to accomodate this larger image.

What I'm wondering is if anyone knows of a way of placing something in the css file that instructs div's to say to themselves "ok ... i'm going to stay at this width no matter what ... anything wider is most certainly welcome, but they'll get reduced to my size".

Thanks,

Steven.

 

[Mr_L]

You could try giving the div an overflow: property.

CSS Overflow Property

 

[philio16]

I've just done the same (if I think what I know what you mean..) I used a javascript thing to do which can be found here

 

[MagSafe]

Oh yeah ... I forgot about the overflow tag, I guess that'll do then.

Cheers