Posted by fred.haab@gmail.com on 06/13/06 17:01

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> It is you and IE that is wrong. Floats are supposed to break out of the
> containing block so that a floated block can knock out more than one
> non-floated block

Actually, I disagree. In all my searching online, I've found that this
behavior is known and expected, but is not defined or "supposed" to be
that way.

In my searching, I've discovered that simply adding the style
"overflow: auto" to the outer div solves the problem.

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