Articles Tagged float

The Media Object pattern is: image thingy on the left, heading and text on the right.

That's what Nicole Sullivan called it and the name stuck. It's a pretty simple pattern, but like all things web design, it can be done many ways.… Read article

Float is a CSS positioning property. To understand its purpose and origin, we can look to print design. In a print layout, images may be set into the page such that text wraps around them as needed. This is commonly and appropriately called "text wrap".