Clearing floats without structural markup in IE7

So a few months back I started getting nervous about IE 7 and what it would do to all my lovely code. I followed the blog and things looked like they were moving in a general direction that made me happy. In other words they were fixing a lot of the most annoying IE 6 bugs as listed on PositionIsEverything and Quirksmode. Still, a worrying rumour stated that the easy clearing method didn't work in IE7. Sure enough, my sites were all looking worse for wear. Luckily this looks like the answer. 05 April 2006