I'm having a little problem with overflow concerning ie and firefox. Still to used to using tables


Problem is IE is stretching a container div element and FF is doing overflow:visible
Because it is a containing element i want it to stretch along with its content holding children.
Now i achieved this by using display: table-cell; on the container

Is this the most viable solution or should i use something else?

"its content holding children"...

i'm not clear on what you're talking about, but when i think "overflow", i go with this:

<div style="overflow:auto">stuff</div>

it produces something like an iframe. is that what you're looking for?

i have a containing div (container)
in that div theres a div (content) with content
when there more text in div content the div grows
trouble is the container div doesnt grow allong in FF

The container div wont expand in FF if you have specified a fixed height for it, you can use min-height but not sure if that works in all browsers - im pretty sure it doesnt...