Floating elems: MUST have width set?

HTML & CSS
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[FONT=Verdana]I have a bunch of floated <ul>'s… I find if I add width the layout gets kind of messed up…:wink:
(not really messed up, just not what I want… I would have to set diff widths for diff <ul>'s if I set widths… right now they’re just the width of the widest <li>… which are all just one-liners…)

(there are “dividers” betw them (1px-wide divs w/left & right margins that act as vertical “lines” betw the <ul>'s… maybe you don’t need width for the <ul>'s if they have these block elems in between them?)

asking b/c my understanding is CSS specs says you have to set width for floated elems (although w/o widths set they work fine in FF, IE, Chrome…)

thank you…[/FONT]

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I think they said set width becaus of ie6 maybe 7. But those are gone now. If you float without a width it will just shrink wrap the text. If that’s what you want it’s fine then.

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awesome… thanks…

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Keep in mind though that if text size is increased so to will your floated div.