It seems to be a float problem

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I’m learning about positioning with css and something just doesn’t work; I have a content div that is holding a left-col div and a right-col. Somehow it seems that the content div is not expanding when I insert text into these columns. I don’t understand why. Can anyone help me please?

This would be the css

@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
/*structurele elementen*/
body{
	margin: 0px;
}

#container{
		
		width: 960px;
		border: 2px solid #000;
		margin: 0 auto;
}

#header{
		width: 960px;
		height: 120px;
		border: 1px solid #F00;
}

#navbar{
		width: 960px;
		height: 40px;
		border: 1px solid #0C0;
}

[B]#content{
		width: 960px;
		border: 1px solid #00F;
		
}

/*Homepage*/
#home-left {
	float: left;
	width: 500px;
	border: 3px solid #630;
	margin-left: 20px;
	padding: 0 40px 0 0;
	
}

#home-right {
	float: right;
	width: 300px;
	border: 3px solid #630;
	margin-right: 20px;
	
}

[/B]


<!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>home</title>

<link href="stijlblad.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">

</div>
<div id="navbar">
</div>
<div id="content">
<div id="home-left">
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</div>
<div id="home-right">
<h2>What is Lorem Ipsum?</h2>

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</div>

<div id="clear">
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">

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</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>
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The content div doesn’t grow because the content is floated, I think you forgot to use the clearing div. :slight_smile:

#clear{
	clear: both;
}

Or you could instead use overflow (set not to visible but hidden/auto/scroll) to clear the floats inside nin good browsers. IE6/7 already clear by hasLayout triggered by the set width.

#content{
	overflow: hidden;
}
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Oh yeah, I defined it in my html but forgot to put the clear definition in the css. :rolleyes: Thanks for the help.