Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

Name

float

Synopsis

This defines the direction in which an element is floated. This has traditionally been applied to images in order to let text flow around them, but in CSS, any element may be floated. A floated element will generate a block-level box no matter what kind of element it may be. Floated nonreplaced elements should be given an explicit width, as they may otherwise tend to become as narrow as possible.

Values:

left | right | none | inherit

Initial value:

none

Applies to:

all elements

Inherited:

no

Computed value:

as specified