Tag: floats

HTML/CSS newbie FAQs

After spending a while on web development forums, you start to see the same questions being asked regularly. So here I’m going to answer some of these common beginner questions and hopefully save me typing answers out repeatedly in the future because I can just refer the poster to here or copy it myself. ;)

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Content bookends

Sometimes you want to have a list of text items or images appear on the same line but with some items aligned to the left and some aligned to the right. An example of this would be a footer where you want to split the links down the middle. Or maybe a blog post where you want to put the date on the left and the number of comments on the right. More on Content bookends

My floated layout won’t work!


Usually when people have trouble with floating columns it’s because they’ve specified a width where there doesn’t always need to be one.

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