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Archives for October 2004

Clearing Floats: The FnE Method

Steve Smith Steve Smith October 26, 2004 34 Comments

When it comes to laying out pages in CSS/XHTML, I have always leaned towards the float method rather than position. But there’s always that issue of clearing your floats. It wasn’t until recently I discovered a little trick to avoid extraneous markup for the sole purpose of clearing floated elements. I call it the Float (Nearly) Everything Method.

Ordered Zen

Steve Smith Steve Smith October 22, 2004 15 Comments

I am proud to announce my entry in to the CSS Zen Garden has been accepted. Ordered Zen was actually completed a few months ago, but was just added to ‘The Garden’ yesterday. Why does this make me so happy? Well, besides the obvious honor of being placed in such a useful and admired collection, allow me to give you a little background.