Div tag does not contain content - php

Question

I've created a form that enters comments onto my blog posts but when the comments are displayed on the webpage the background color that I added to the div is either to big or to small. I've provided the code below. Any help is appreciated!
<h2 id="comments-title">Comments</h2>
<div id="comment-list">
<?php
}
$commenttimestamp = strtotime("now");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM php_blog_comments WHERE entry='$id' ORDER BY timestamp";
$result = mysql_query ($sql) or print ("Can't select comments from table php_blog_comments.<br />" . $sql . "<br />" . mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$timestamp = date("l F d Y", $row['timestamp']);
printf("<div class='comment-ind'><p id='comments'><a id='username' href=\"%s\">%s</a> %s</p>", stripslashes($row['url']), stripslashes($row['name']), $timestamp);
print("<p class='comments'>" . stripslashes($row['comment']) . "</p><div class='clr'><br></div></div>");
}
?>
<form id="commentform" method="post" action="process.php">
<p><input type="hidden" name="entry" id="entry" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="timestamp" id="timestamp" value="<?php echo $commenttimestamp; ?>">
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" title="Name (required)" /><br />
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" title="Mail (will not be published) (required)" /><br />
<input type="text" name="url" id="url" title="Website" value="http://" /><br />
<br />
<textarea title="Your Comment Goes Here" name="comment" id="comment"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="submit_comment" id="submit_comment" value="Add Comment" /></p>
</form>
</div>
CSS:
#comments-title {
background-color: #282828;
width: 567px;
height: 30px;
font-size: 25px;
font-family: arial;
color: #ffffff;
padding: 5px;
padding-top: 6px;
padding-bottom: 4px;
}
#comment-list{
border:1px solid #dadada;
width: 565px;
padding: 5px;
font-family: Helvetica;
font-size: 18px;
}
#comments {
width: 480px;
font-size: 12px;
color: #444444;
}
.comments {
width: 480px;
height: 20px;
}
.comment-ind {
background-color: #eeeeee;
width: 548px;
position: relative;
min-height: 10px;
margin: 5px;
padding: 8px;
}
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Answer 1

Your problem is with height: 20px;. You can change it to min-height: 20px; and then it will be at least that height, but the way you have it, it will always be 20px tall regardless of the content.

Answer 2

Are we seeing the whole css that applies to this div. Looking at the screen shot I would guess that the paragraph of text is floated left and the containing div is not wrapping. Try removing the height and adding overflow:hidden to the containing .comments div. That way the height will adjust with the size of the contain.