Clearing floats with overflow:auto
- 28th February 2005
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I've been using the Position is Everything Float Clearing method in production for a while now. Getting the clearing divs out of my markup was very satisfying, in a geeky sort of way. The method is fiendishly clever... so much so that I felt no shame in not having thought of it myself. I just read Simple Clearing of Floats by Alex Walker though and I was left gaping at the screen, reading and re-reading the article. Apparently just putting overflow: auto on the parent container of your floats will sort out all your clearing issues. It's that simple. Bloody hell.
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