how to make a div to wrap two float divs inside?
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>
Answer
Aside from the clear: both hack, you can skip the extra element and use overflow: hidden on the wrapping div:
<div style="overflow: hidden;">
<div style="float: left;"></div>
<div style="float: left;"></div>
</div>