HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
The photo above shows the “Readers' sites” section of .net magazine, which
displays 3 readers' photos each aligned left in their respective columns with
text wrapping around the aligned images. That is the basic idea behind the
float
property in CSS layouts, and demonstrates one of the ways it has
been used in table-less design.
The e
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ectiveness of using floats in multi-columned layouts was explained by
Douglas Bowman in 2004 in his classic presentation No More Tables:
