div's height is always the height of its children but the padding...

Question

Hi, is any property in css that could help me?
<ul> does take the height of its children <li>, but only the content and ignores their padding.

Answer 1

learn css position attribute and also display

Answer 2

(I'm not specifying li's height, it's given by font-size and the padding I think.. , is there the problem?)