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An interesting conversation came up at work the other day: Should we use the CSS float property now that we have CSS Grid and Flexbox?…

Twenty-plus years ago, tables were the main way web pages were created in HTML. It gave web builders consistent control of constructing pages with some “design.” No longer did sites only have to be top-to-bottom in a linear manner — …

Say you want to have an image (or any other element) visually float left into a paragraph of text. But like… in the middle of the paragraph, not right at the top. It’s doable, but it’s certainly in the realm …

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 …

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".