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“The standard method of making an outer container appear to “enclose” a nested float is to place a complete “cleared” element last in the container, which has the effect of ‘dragging’ the lower edge of the containing box lower than the float.”

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CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know

Published on May 1st, 2007 in CSS Tags: Del.icio.us Digg Submit to Stumbleupon! | , , , | 59 comments.

The concept of floats is probably one of the most unintuitive concepts in CSS. Floats are often misunderstood and blamed for floating all the context around it, causing readability and usability problems. However, the reason for these problems isn’t the theory itself, but the way the theory is interpreted - by developers and browsers.

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The concept of floats is probably one of the most unintuitive concepts in CSS. Floats are often misunderstood and blamed for floating all the context around it, causing readability and usability problems. However, the reason for these problems isn’t the theory itself, but the way the theory is interpreted - by developers and browsers.

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the most important things you should keep in mind developing css-based layouts with floats.

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