I don't know if it's a common problem, but I can't find the solution in web so far. I would like to have two divs wrapped inside another div, however these two divs inside have to be align the same level (for example: left one takes 20%width of the wrappedDiv, right one take another 80%). To achieve this purpose, I used the following example CSS. However, now the wrap DIV didn't wrap those divs all. The wrap Div has a small height than those two divs contained inside. How could I make sure that the wrap Div has the largest height as the contained divs? Thanks!!!
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>liquid test</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height:100%;
}
#nav
{
float: left;
width: 25%;
height: 150px;
background-color: #999;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
#content
{
float: left;
margin-left: 1%;
width: 65%;
height: 150px;
background-color: #999;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
#wrap
{
background-color:#DDD;
height:100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<h1>wrap1 </h1>
<div id="nav"></div>
<div id="content"><a href="index.htm">< Back to article</a></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Use this CSS hack, it saved me lot of trouble and time.
http://swiftthemes.com/2009/12/css-tips-and-hacks/problem-with-height-of-div-containing-floats-and-inline-lists/
I use it in every project.
Instead of using
overflow:hidden
, which is a kind of hack, why not simply setting a fixed height, e.g.height:500px
, to the parent division?HTML
CSS
It's a common problem when you have two floats inside a block. The best way of fixing it is using
clear:both
after the seconddiv
.It should force the container to be the correct height.
Aside from the
clear: both
hack, you can skip the extra element and useoverflow: hidden
on the wrappingdiv
: