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George Kadar
2,721 PointsClearing the Footer
I don't quite understand why the footer is affected by the 'float' and needs to be 'cleared' in the css file? The way I'm understanding it, is that the 'float' property is inside the ID gallery, which is the ID of the unordered list of images, but the footer is outside the unordered list in the html file? Hope this makes sense. No a huge deal, really. I'd just like to know.
2 Answers
Dennis de Vries
9,440 PointsHi George,
The 'clear' property reacts to the preceding elements only. So in this case, clearing the ID gallery would only make it react to whatever floating elements are above that in the html. When using a float, the natural behavior of following elements would be to fill up the remaining space. So in this case, the ID gallery might float left so the next element, the footer, jumps in the open space on the right. By telling the footer to stay 'clear' of this 'float' in the preceding element, it won't jump to the right, but instead stay below.
If you want to know more, check out MDN about the clear property: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/clear
Hope this helps Dennis
Mark Shiel
12,225 PointsSo what you are saying in essence is once a float is declared no matter what ID it is inside, everything will float according to that rule until something is defined differently?