On this page http://tutorial.davidclick.com/philpotts-clone.html & illustrated here http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/overflow-auto-mystery_zps1b64d973.jpg I added a overflow: auto; to the #header & that preserved the height of the conatining div.
But why did this work? The reason I ask is that i understand overflow: auto; is a fix to the known problem “If floated elements habe non floated parent elements, the parent will collapse.”
So my question is please…
“Why did overflow:auto; preserve the header hight & prevented it from collapsing”
Grazie tanto,
David