On Oct 23, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Leandro Tracchia wrote: > my problem is exactly what this post is describing > http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-5372.html. i > tried using min-height but that won't work. > > i have two divs inside one parent div. the two divs are floating left > and filled with lots of text. but they are running off the parent div. > i need the height of the parent div to grow or shrink with the amount > of text in the child divs.
Yes, that is the expected behaviour. The floated blocks are taken out of the flow, and the parent div is technically 'empty'. http://www.google.com/search?q=containing%20floats has the details, explanations and solutions. And ore from the CSS-D wiki http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ClearingSpace Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
