Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide

Name

float — IE4 P/B | IE5 P/Q | NN4 P/P | Op3 B/-

Synopsis

Sets the float direction for an element. This is generally applied to images in order to allow text to flow around them, but under CSS1 any element may be floated. Note that, for elements such as paragraph, floating the element will cause its width to tend toward zero unless an explicit width is assigned; thus, width assignment is a crucial part of floating any nonreplaced element.

Example

IMG {float: left;}

Values

left | right | none

Default

none

Inherited

no

Applies to

all elements