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Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution

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The web community has, for the most part, been a spectacularly open place. As such, a lot of the best development techniques happen right out in the open, on blogs and in forums, evolving as they’re passed around and improved. I thought it might be fun (and fascinating) to actually follow this creative exchange all the way through. To take a look at a popular CSS trick, the clearfix, and find out exactly how a web design technique comes to … Read article “Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution”

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The End of the Clearfix hack?

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Rachel Andrew with a clear (get it?!) explanation of display: flow-root;, including demos comparing old and new techniques. Apparently the name is still a little bit still up in the air.

The whole point of it is getting rid of clearfix (although it is a bit different), or using a different/unintended property for float clearning. Every time this is brought up, there is always a well actually about how overflow: hidden; does the same (or any other … Read article “The End of the Clearfix hack?”

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