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7.6

tring to understand why the float is doing this and how to work around it

Asked by paries in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Hello,
So i am building these lists
Figure 1 is how it works without making the blue-bordered divs floats.
figure 2 is what it looks like when the blue div are floated left.

is there a way i can make this div stay with in the purple div. I can not give the purple div height  because these lists are created on the fly.

sample code attached as well

thanks
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 
<html>
<head>
	<title>Untitled</title>
      <style>
          .Rank{
              margin: 100px;
              padding: 10px;
              border: purple 2px solid; 
          }
          .rankdesc{
              border: yellow 2px solid;    
          }
          .person{
              /*display: inline;*/
              width: 250px;
              border: blue 2px solid;
              float: left;
          }
          .site_h2{
          }
      </style>
</head>
 
<body>
 
      <div id="content">
          <div id="content_inner">
              <h1 class="site_h1">My Area List</h1>
                    <div class="Rank">
                            <div class="rankdesc">
                                <h2 class="site_h2">Offspring Director20</h2>
                            </div>
		                        <div class="person">
		                            <a href="/kam">Randy Paries(dir)</a>
		                        </div>
                    </div>
              
                    <div class="Rank">
                            <div class="rankdesc">
                                <h2 class="site_h2">Elite Executive Senior Director15</h2>
                            </div>
		                        <div class="person">
		                            <a href="/phiggs">Pam Higgs</a>
		                        </div>
                    </div>
              
                    <div class="Rank">
                            <div class="rankdesc">
                                <h2 class="site_h2">Future Executive Senior Director14</h2>
                            </div>
		                        <div class="person">
		                            <a href="/barbaraallen-rosser">Barbara Allen-Rosser</a>
		                        </div>
		                        <div class="person">
		                            <a href="/terrichappell">Terri Chappell</a>
		                        </div>
		                        <div class="person">
		                            <a href="/windyfranklin">Windy Franklin</a>
		                        </div>
		                        <div class="person">
		                            <a href="/janetwolfe">Janet Wolfe</a>
		                        </div>
		                        <div class="person">
		                            <a href="/julzroberts">Julie Roberts</a>
		                        </div>
		                        <div class="person">
		                            <a href="/anitaarvo">Anita Arvo</a>
		                        </div>
		                        <div class="person">
		                            <a href="/heatwave">Jami Hovey</a>
		                        </div>
                    </div>
          </div><!-- end content_inner -->
      </div><!-- end content -->
 
 
</body>
</html>
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