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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Image Captions

Posted by Arnaud Kamtcheu
Arnaud Kamtcheu
2,181 Points

Float and Clear

Hello, In the video "Style the image captions" Nick use the property clear to avoid the footer to appear next t one of the image gallery and stay at its normal position - the footer. The property float has been used for the unoerdere list element (ul) via the ID "gallery". This element belongs to the section element that is outside the footer. My question is : why the footer is affected by this "float" property while it's not among the elements that belong to the "gallery" ID? Cheers

2 Answers

Cherie Burgett
Cherie Burgett
8,711 Points
Cherie Burgett
Cherie Burgett
8,711 Points

The float property doesn't effect eliments before it, However elements that come after it may move up for example a paragraph that follows a floated eliment will wrap itself beside it.

Arnaud Kamtcheu
Arnaud Kamtcheu
2,181 Points
Arnaud Kamtcheu
Arnaud Kamtcheu
2,181 Points

OK I think i get it. Thanks Cherie