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

Add this line to your CSS properties:

overflow: hidden

Answer 2

In CSS, floated elements do not add height to a parent by default.

The solution is simply to set overflow: hidden.

<div style="border: 2px solid black; overflow: hidden;" 
    <img src="testImage1.png" alt="Test Image 1" style="float:right;" />
    <img src="testImage2.png" alt="Test Image 2" style="float:left;" />
    <p>Test Text</p>
</div>

fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/JNets/

Answer 3

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