title: Expanding the parent container with 100% height to account for floated content
body: <p>I'm struggling with a client project. All of my <code>div</code>s have no absolute positioning, <code>height:100%</code> for <code>html</code>, <code>body</code>, and container <code>div</code>s, and yet the static-content stops short of its contents (at 910px).</p>
  
  <p>I can change the overflow property to <code>auto</code>, and the background will continue down to the end of the content, but it adds a scroll bar, and the bottom border of the static-content <code>div</code> stays in the same place (at 910px).</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE: Development link was no longer valid, so I removed it. Suffice to say that Animuson's thorough explanation is the valuable part of this thread, and solved the problem of containers not expanding to match their content. – Ty</p>