Hello Brendan, This is typical with floats. Floated items are removed from the document flow and non floated elements do not take them into account anymore. You can have a look at Eric's article on the subject of "float containment" <http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/>
In you case you can force the wrapper to enclose the floats by: Floating the wrapper as well Or Applying a clearing technique <http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ClearingSpace> Cheers, Jérôme Coupé International Polar Foundation Multimedia & Communication -- Phone : +32 (0)2 533 97 33 ---------------------------------- <http://www.polarfoundation.org> <http://www.sciencepoles.org> ---------------------------------- Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. - Daisetsu Suzuki, J. Hyams (1979, 99). > Hi all > > I have the following code, and the floats are displaying > correctly (as in they're side-by-side), but the wrapper > doesn't extend down... ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
