James Hague wrote:
>  
> how can one enclose the regContainer div
> inside the mainFrame div irrespective of the content of the regContainer.
> The clearer div is not doing the trick!  a large content of 'regContainer'
> pushes its lower edge below the main frame!
> Please help?  James
>
>   


Does this yield the result you seek?


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style type="text/css">
.mainFrame{
height:100%;
background: #fff;
border: 5px solid #CCCCCC;
}
.regContainer {
/*position:relative;  top:125px; */
margin-top: 125px;
color: #black;
width: 720px;
float:left;
border:1px solid #000;
}
.clearer {clear: both;/* font-size: 6px;*/}
p { margin: 0; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="mainFrame"><!-- align="center"-->
<div class="regContainer"><p>long paragraph goes here</p></div>
<div class="clearer">&nbsp;</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Regards,
~dL

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