Why is the parent div height zero when it has floated children

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Content that is floating does not influence the height of its container. The element contains no content that isn’t floating (so nothing stops the height of the container being 0, as if it were empty).

Setting overflow: hidden on the container will avoid that by establishing a new block formatting context. See methods for containing floats for other techniques and containing floats for an explanation about why CSS was designed this way.

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