Should my UL behave like this?

Ok this is not really a "problem question" but more of a
general "is this element behaving correctly?" question..
I have created a new masthead section for my site, and have
used a right-floated UL called "rightlist" with a background image.
The UL uses padding-bottom of 46px to make the image appear fully.
Using the padding-bottom causes the UL to "overlap" the DIV's
positioned directly below and allows for a nice fluid layout.
My question is - Should the UL with the padding-bottom of
46px be overlapping the DIV below? I always thought it should
"push" the div lower down and not overlap. But I am happy with it
doing the overlapping becuase it is giving me the effect I want to
acheive!
I have highlighted the top right-floated UL with the image in
GREEN border, and the DIV in BLUE border so you can see what I mean
UL example

~Billy~ wrote:
> Ok this is not really a "problem question" but more of a
general "is this
> element behaving correctly?" question..
>
> I have created a new masthead section for my site, and
have used a
> right-floated UL called "rightlist" with a background
image. The UL uses
> padding-bottom of 46px to make the image appear fully.
Using the padding-bottom
> causes the UL to "overlap" the DIV's positioned directly
below and allows for a
> nice fluid layout.
>
> My question is - Should the UL with the padding-bottom
of 46px be overlapping
> the DIV below? I always thought it should "push" the div
lower down and not
> overlap. But I am happy with it doing the overlapping
becuase it is giving me
> the effect I want to acheive!
>
> I have highlighted the top right-floated UL with the
image in GREEN border,
> and the DIV in BLUE border so you can see what I mean -
>
>
http://www.siteoftom.com/example.html
>
To see what you expect to see, try adding height: 46px; to
that rule -
now you see what is happening?
Now make the padding for this rule - padding: 0; :-)
HTH
chin chin
Sinclair

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