https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23897
Trevor Parscal <tpars...@wikimedia.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |INVALID
--- Comment #1 from Trevor Parscal <tpars...@wikimedia.org> 2010-06-11 18:29:30
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We use this for 2 reasons. 1, to clear the floating so that elements later on
which also use floating are reset to the far left/right. 2, to automatically
size the parent container's height to the height of all floated elements within
it.
Clear has to do with what the element does to the floating chaing *before* it's
rendered, *not after*. Adding clear:both to the last element in a series of
floating elements will result in that element breaking the floating chain and
then being rendered at the far left/right below the other elements.
By using <div style="clear:both"></div> we can clear floating and get the
parent container to receive the correct height.
I hope this clears this up.
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