Height of image greater than amount of text

[hostricity]

When you have an image set with text to the left or the right that does not fill up the entire area next to the picture, How do you force the next block of text to go below the picture? With tables you'd put the picture and the text that goes with it in the first row and the text that goes below in the second row. I don't know how to do this in CSS. The image shows the problem and what I am trying to do.

This is a generalized issue, so I would prefer not to hardcode min-height in the CSS file. Coding a min-height in the html would be fine. But, I couldn't figure out how to do that.

[hostricity]

Forgot to mention that

<div style="min-height:290px">

works in Firefox, but not Internet explorer. Same for

<p style="min-height:290px">

I simply set the minimum height to the height of the image.