Height problem: side-bars vs. main-content lineup

Yeah, there's another issue on this type of problem. It is pretty frustrating.

After reading http://drupal.org/node/25192 and http://drupal.org/node/38426, I studied the style.css file and found the following section:

/*<group=Profile Styles>*/
.profile {
  _position: relative;
  _height: 1%;
  clear: none; /* override drupal.css clear:both which causes whitespace */
}

This gave me the clue I needed to fix the problem.

HOW TO FIX

Add the following code to the style.css file:

.node-form .standard {
  clear: none; /* override drupal.css clear:both which causes whitespace */
}

This fixed the problem for me.

There are other "pages" which also exhibit this behavior, such as the bottom half of the Democratica theme settings page. Therefore I also added the following code to style.css:

.theme-settings-bottom {
  clear: none; /* override drupal.css clear:both which causes whitespace */
}

NOTE: There may be other classes in the stock drupal.css file that need similar overriding by Democratica's style.css file.

Nice Lafflam!! These fixed both the FF and IE problems I was having! I owe you my first born!

Retraction of Update #5 above

Update #5 above breaks the general themes settings page in Democratica. I recommend not using the code from Update #5.

Following further testing, Update #4 seems to solve the original problem and continues to work fine.