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8.2

Auto height issue when using float

Asked by matreece in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

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I have a div (main container) which will basically be used for a border and white background for my website.
Inside this I will have 3 columns.
The problem is as i'm floating my content within the main container the main container won't drop down with the 3 columns in Firefox. In Explorer its fine though.
I hope i've explained this ok.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="style/test.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
 
<body>
 
<div id="mainContainer">
 
  <div class="subNav">
    <p>About Us</p>
    <p>About Us</p>
    <p>About Us</p>
    <p>About Us</p>
    <p>About Us</p>
    <p>About Us</p>
    <p>About Us</p>
  </div>
  <div class="mainContent">
   <img src="images/headerTest.png" width="161" height="28" />
    <p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean diam  ipsum, hendrerit ac, ullamcorper nec, malesuada ut, mauris. Cras non  sapien. Praesent lacus arcu, dapibus vel, pellentesque a, luctus a,  felis. Etiam sed magna. Proin euismod laoreet eros. Donec imperdiet  magna id sapien. Nullam at turpis. Fusce dictum tortor sit amet lacus.  Suspendisse potenti. Duis ligula. Suspendisse nec quam. Donec at felis.  Nunc nisi purus, tempor a, malesuada accumsan, aliquet in, mi. </p>
    <p>Integer egestas aliquet sapien. Nulla quam. Donec feugiat, risus ac  imperdiet congue, turpis ante iaculis neque, viverra volutpat turpis  enim non risus. Vestibulum quis ipsum et tortor faucibus hendrerit.  Maecenas ultrices libero dapibus est. Duis tellus. Sed tempus congue  nisl. Ut massa nibh, consequat mollis, ullamcorper eget, tincidunt  eget, mi. Curabitur sed nibh id nisl dapibus adipiscing. Sed venenatis  congue odio. Pellentesque quis nulla. Mauris nec velit. </p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
  </div>  
  <div class="rightContent">
    <p>Content for  class "rightContent" Goes Here</p>
    <p>Content for  class &quot;rightContent&quot; Goes Here</p>
    <p>Content for  class &quot;rightContent&quot; Goes Here</p>
    <p>Content for  class &quot;rightContent&quot; Goes Here</p>
    <p>Content for  class &quot;rightContent&quot; Goes Here</p>
  </div>
 
</div>
 
 
</body>
</html>
 
 
and style....
 
 
 
 body {
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial;
	font-size: 0.8em;
	margin:0 auto;
	padding:0;
	min-height:100%;
	height:100%;
	voice-family: "\"}\"";
	voice-family:inherit;
	padding-top:5px;
	background-image: url(../images/bodyBG.jpg);
}
 
#mainContainer {
	width: 800px;
	border: solid #A9D020 1px;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0 auto;
	height: auto;
}
#mainContainer .subNav {
	background-color: #E1F4C5;
	float: left;
	width: 156px;
	padding-left: 30px;
	background-image: url(../images/subNavBG.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: top;
	height: inherit;
}
#mainContainer .rightContent {
	background-color: #FFB584;
	width: 156px;
	float: right;
	background-image: url(../images/rightContentBG.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: top;
	padding-left: 15px;
	padding-right: 15px;
	padding-top: 20px;
}
#mainContainer .mainContent {
	width: 386px;
	float: left;
	padding-left: 20px;
	padding-right: 20px;
	background-image: url(../images/mainContentBG.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: top;
	background-color: #DFF2DB;
	color: #666666;
	padding-top: 30px;
}
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Zones: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Tags: css, Firefox
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