floats on both left and right side in FF

Sent by Zoe M. Gillenwater on 14 January 2005 13:01

Gary Ross 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.
>
>
> So I threw up this quick 'tutorial'.
> http://www.j-cafe.com/floats.html
>
> Put together very quickly, but perhaps illustrates what we are trying 
> to say :-)


Yes, example three and four show what I was trying to say.  Box #3 is 
not moved up by being floated.  As Bruno pointed out, of course, you 
really need all nine rules to understand fully how floats should behave.

Zoe

-- 
Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Specialist
Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu

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Message thread:

• floats on both left and right side in FF - Jan Ptacek, 13th January 2005 14:22
  • floats on both left and right side in FF - IChao, 13th January 2005 16:08
  • floats on both left and right side in FF - Gary Ross, 13th January 2005 16:16
    • floats on both left and right side in FF - Eric A. Meyer, 13th January 2005 17:06
      • floats on both left and right side in FF - Gary Ross, 13th January 2005 17:44
  • floats on both left and right side in FF - Stephen Rider, 13th January 2005 16:29
    • floats on both left and right side in FF - Stephen Rider, 13th January 2005 17:05
    • floats on both left and right side in FF - Gary Ross, 13th January 2005 17:08
      • floats on both left and right side in FF - Zoe M. Gillenwater, 13th January 2005 17:54
        • floats on both left and right side in FF - Jan Ptacek, 13th January 2005 18:23
    • floats on both left and right side in FF - Jan Ptacek, 13th January 2005 17:48
      • floats on both left and right side in FF - Zoe M. Gillenwater, 13th January 2005 18:21
      • floats on both left and right side in FF - IChao, 13th January 2005 19:35
    • floats on both left and right side in FF - Gary Ross, 13th January 2005 17:51
      • floats on both left and right side in FF - Zoe M. Gillenwater, 13th January 2005 18:24
        • floats on both left and right side in FF - Gary Ross, 14th January 2005 03:39
          • floats on both left and right side in FF - Stephen Rider, 14th January 2005 05:31
            • floats on both left and right side in FF - Gary Ross, 14th January 2005 08:34
              • floats on both left and right side in FF - Zoe M. Gillenwater, 14th January 2005 13:34
  • floats on both left and right side in FF - Bruno Fassino, 14th January 2005 10:00
    • floats on both left and right side in FF - Stephen Rider, 17th January 2005 13:16
      • floats on both left and right side in FF - Gary Ross, 17th January 2005 16:28