Putting a Border Around Floating Elements

Question

Say I have something like the following code, where I want to display some text between two images that I am floating left and right.

Answer 1

Adding an overflow in this case with a value of hidden or auto remedies the issue.

Check the fiddle below:

http://jsfiddle.net/XMrwR/

Clearing floats the overflow way

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/03/clearing_floats.html