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2010 July

Proper way to contain floating elements using HTML/CSS?

Say I have the following HTML:

<head>
    <style>
        #container {
            border: 1px red solid;
        }
        .floaty {
            width: 200px;
            float: left;
            border: 1px green solid;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='container'>
    Text inside the container
    <div class='floaty'>
    Floaty block 1<br/>
    Floaty block 1<br/>
    Floaty block 1<br/>
    </div>
    <div class='floaty'>
    Floaty block 2<br/>
    Floaty block 2<br/>
    Floaty block 2<br/>
    </div>
    <div class='floaty'>
    Floaty block 3<br/>
    Floaty block 3<br/>
    Floaty block 3<br/>
    </div>
</div>
</body>

This renders as: floaty divs

What's the proper CSS way to have the container (red-bordered box) completely surround the floaty green-bordered boxes?

Thu, July 22, 2010, 8:06 p.m. / Roy Tang / notes / #html #css #questions #stackoverflow #software-development #container / Syndicated: stackexchange / 💬 3