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Floats clarified

22nd July 2002

Floats, an alternative perspective. A useful overview of how CSS floats should work based on the specification.

Posted 22nd July 2002 at 11:16 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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