Re: [WSG] about that new way to clear floats

[Mordechai Peller]

Peter Ottery wrote: I mean, the "hack" used up until now of adding a <div style="clear:both"></div> (or similar) to properly clear floats when needed is pretty straightforward, albeit a bit of code that always felt unnecessary... For what it's worth, I think the <br /> version is semantically better. <> But this new method has the _javascript_ requirement to fix mac ie5 and uses the "holly hack" anyway. to me, at least initially, it feels like a bit of a "rabbit warren" style of fix, meaning it seems more convoluted than the problem its solving... The biggest advantage of this hack is it's non-semantic: no extra mark-up. One way around the _javascript_ is through server side browser sniffing. But once you're doing that, you might as well insert the <br /> instead.