Mark Fellowes wrote: > I think this clears up a misconception for me. Like "absolute" I was > considering floats to also be out of the document flow. Seems that > was wrong thinking.
Yes, but you're only partly wrong :-) Absolute positioned elements don't take up any space in the flow, so other elements won't interact with them. Floats *do* take up space in the flow, thus all elements following a float will /interact/ with it and stay out of the float's space. However, just to point to the /power/ of 'floating' as layout-method, the space taken up by a float can be /controlled/. That's what make layouts following the 'negative margin' method possible... <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/> That 'negative margin' method is behind the layout of this page... <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_demo_float_03.html> ...and an extreme example where _floats take up no space at all_, is presented and described there. Note that those "removed floats" still follow float-rules, and that the elements in the flow are still interacting with the floats - even if it doesn't look like it. It's all according to CSS specs. Plenty to learn about floats if you want, or need, to take full advantage of them. Just remember that /any/ similarities between floats and "absolute" are superficial. It's up to the designer/coder to decide what it should look like, and which method(s) to use to achieve that look. Intermixing methods is also an option - which I use quite often. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
