<body>
<div class="content">
<div class="content-sidebar">
content-sidebar
</div>
<div class="content-main">
content-main
</div>
</div>
</body>
This is a snippet of HTML code, with CSS code to follow.
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.content {
background-color: yellow;
}
.content-sidebar {
background-color: red;
float: right;
margin-left: 30px;
}
.content-main {
background-color: green;
height: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
}
The use of the overflow:hidden property in the .content-main div creates a new block formatting context, separating it from the .content-sidebar. This led to an issue where applying margin-right:30px on .content-main did not yield expected results.
Upon further investigation using Chrome Dev Tools, it was discovered that the margin-right property applied to the main div interacted with the browser and not with the sidebar. Conversely, the floated sidebar interacted with the main div. This behavior raised the question of why there was this discrepancy in interaction between the two elements.