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POWhy doesn't height:auto work on these two elements?
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    copied!<p>I want my main-div and footer-div grow with the content (height:auto). height:auto works fine for the footer, but not for the main content. When I try it for the main-wrapper it messes up the page. To be exact, the footer takes over the whole footer and main together. The structure of my page is something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div id="page-wrapper"&gt; &lt;div id="header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="main-wrapper"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="footer"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>And this is the css of each div:</p> <pre><code>#page-wrapper{ margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:85%; -moz-box-shadow: 6px 0 4px -4px #888 , -6px 0 4px -4px #888; -webkit-box-shadow: 6px 0 4px -4px #888 , -6px 0 4px -4px #888; box-shadow: 6px 0 4px -4px #888 , -6px 0 4px -4px #888; border-right:solid 1px #CCC; border-left:solid 1px #CCC; } #header{ margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:100%; height:200px; background-color:#ffffff; } #main-wrapper{ width:100%; height:auto; /* this line is the problem */ margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; background-color:#E5E7EE; } #footer{ width:100%; height:auto; background-color:#ffffff; } </code></pre> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> </p> <p>Inside main-wrapper I have these 2 divs:</p> <pre><code>#text-wrapper{ width:60%; float:left; font-weight:300; padding-left:50px; } #login-register-field{ float:right; width:300px; height:260px; background-color:#BDBCC4; -webkit-border-radius:12px; -moz-border-radius:12px; border-radius:12px; margin-right:40px; margin-top:80px; position:relative; } </code></pre> <p>Could these be causing the problem?</p>
 

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