Title: Background height problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Background height problem

 *  [mithrustt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrustt/)
 * (@mithrustt)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-height-problem/)
 * I’m having a problem with the height of a specific background I have. Think of
   the background as a rectangle that has a fixed width but will stretch vertically
   depending on the amount of content in it. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem,
   but I have to smaller boxes within, one which is to sit on the left and the other
   on the right side. Because of this, I have the one with float: left; and the 
   other float: right;.
 * As soon as I introduce the float to each of the two classes, the background that
   has the two boxes within retains its width, since I’ve set it, but the height
   of the box is reduced to 10px since i have a top and bottom padding of 5px each.
 * [http://think-theory.com/](http://think-theory.com/)
 * You can see the problem in the sidebar. I’ve used bright colours to show the 
   different boxes. The little thumbnail pictures on the left are the float: left
   boxes and the text on the right is the float: right. They’re both supposed to
   be within the red box, but as you can see, the red doesn’t stretch like it should.
 * Any idea of what I can do to make it work?

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 *  Thread Starter [mithrustt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrustt/)
 * (@mithrustt)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-height-problem/#post-914592)
 * I can also provide the code for the classes if it’ll be helpful.
 *  Thread Starter [mithrustt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mithrustt/)
 * (@mithrustt)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-height-problem/#post-914728)
 * Does no one know how I can fix this?

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 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [height](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/height/)

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-height-problem/#post-914728)
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