Re: Empty divs just feel wrong... - CSS-Tricks

September 24, 2008 at 11:52 pm #50032

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"mikes" wrote:

I’m pretty new to css layout so maybe I’m doing this all wrong. When I need to float something I seem to need to do a clear:both afterwards to keep from screwing up whatever follows. I’ve been doing it like this:

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Put something here.
Put something next to it.
Put something on the right.”

That really feels like a hack. Is there a better way?

You don’t have a width to your floats. Therefore it will float left and set a width to the size of your content within it. The divs with floats positioned after then will float to the left and not clear because of the lack of a width.