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CSS

Posted by Benjamin Hedgepeth
Benjamin Hedgepeth
5,672 Points

Float explanation (beginner friendly)

This is not so much a question, but a means of helping others learn this topic. I found this page where it was very comprehensible. A highly recommended read if you want to reinforce your understanding of floats.

http://alistapart.com/article/css-floats-101

1 Answer

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points
Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi,

Floats are a sticky one to explain really, so many factors tend to affect them and all kind of wack things go on if you use them for layout and don't clear the float correctly.

But that being said here is a brief overview.

To add my little bit of info I stick by to understand what is going would be to say "floating an element takes it out of the normal document flow".

By doing this thing "float" around it :)

Very much like when you edit the text wrapping on work for example, you can have the text run round the outside of the image. That's is a simple example of the kind of affect the float property has on an element.

I'm not sure how helpful this will be but hopefully may clear a couple things up when you read the link :)

Craig