nested div exceeds depth of parent

nested div problem

[mrgaric]

I' trying to learn layout using css, and I keep having a problem where I put one div inside another (for a left column for instance), and then if I type text into the inside div it starts to go down below the outer div. What am I doing wrong that's not forcing the parent div to expand as well?

Thanks

[Marshall]

Can you post your CSS and relative HTML?

Marshall

[SuzyUK]

for IE, give the parent div layout (a height, width or.. zoom) for compliant browsers add {overflow: auto;} to parent div (compliant includes IE7)

and do a search on "containing floats"