how to keep the height of the div equal to the union of the height of elements inside it

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Published on 2010-05-30T12:16:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/30 12:22 UTC
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I have been making a wordpress template. i got stuck at some place...

the problem is,

how to maintain the size of a div >= the size of p tags and img tags...

i have seen that the div only able to contain the p tag but the img tag over flows...

i have my code in this following order:

<div>
<p> some contents <img src="an_image"/> some morecontent</p>
<div>

what i basically want is:

div height = <p> height U(union) <img> height

but, what actually i am getting is:

div height = <p> height; while <img> over flows

i have already checked for similar questions on Stack Overflow but was not able to find one which solves a similar problem.. please give me some idea..

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