Sent by Bruno Fassino on 14 January 2005 10:10
Stephen Rider wrote:
> (In theory...) An object that is floated has the same vertical position
> it would have were it not floated. Float merely shifts it to one side
> or the other.
Sorry for the nit-picking... The above is probably useful to help grasping
as floats work, but (exactly as any other attempt to explain floats in few
words) is not 100% correct.
Two sibling floats are displayed one below the other when there is no
sufficient horizontal space to have them side by side, so a float may go
down (have a lower vertical position than it would have were it not
floated.)
The specs needed nine rules to define the behaviour of floats, so any
attempt to oversimplify is dangerous :)
Bruno
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