• SitePoint Blogs » Simple Clearing of Floats
  [FJ: I'm unsure about this technique, but my try it sometime.] That was my ‘current state of play’ until last week when SitePoint Forum’s own CSS Guru, Paul O’Brien, nonchalantly pointed out that adding a ‘overflow:auto’ [OR HIDDEN!] to the outer DIV did the trick.
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