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    copied!<p>I'm having a problem with setting the height of <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> tags using CSS.</p> <p>I'm using the following CSS &amp; HTML code.</p> <pre><code> &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta charset="utf-8" /&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;style&gt; body, p, b, ul, li, div { padding:0; margin:0; border:0; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } div { display:block; } #ph_container { margin:0 auto; width:980px; height:auto; border: 1px solid #00CC33; clear:both; background: #F0F0F0; } #cp_search { height:100px; clear:both; margin:10px 0px 0px 0px; border: 1px solid #0099FF; } #cp_search_ex { clear:both; background:none; margin-top:5px; margin-left:27px; } #cp_search_tx { width:210px; float:left; /*try here whitout float and see the difference that I want to get*/ margin:0px; background:none; } .txtx { color: #000000; text-decoration:none; font-size:13px; font-weight:bold; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div id="ph_container" class="space"&gt; &lt;div id="cp_search"&gt; &lt;div id="cp_search_ex" class="space"&gt; &lt;div id="cp_search_tx" class="txtx" &gt;SEARCH&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>My problem is that the parent <code>div id="cp_search_ex"</code> doesn't get the height of the <code>div id="cp_search_tx"</code> which is inside it, it has the <code>height: 0px</code>.</p> <p>I want the <code>div id="cp_search_ex"</code> to take the height from the <code>div id="cp_search_tx"</code>?</p> <p>I wrote a comment in the CSS code please follow.</p>
 

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