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Direct link to the article Hexagons and Beyond: Flexible, Responsive Grid Patterns, Sans Media Queries
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Hexagons and Beyond: Flexible, Responsive Grid Patterns, Sans Media Queries

A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s using —wait for it — CSS Grid to form that layout. It’s a neat trick! Combining grid columns, grid gaps, and creative clipping …

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Temani Afif on Jun 3, 2021 (Updated on Jun 8, 2021)
Direct link to the article Float an Element to the Bottom Corner
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Float an Element to the Bottom Corner

Need to lay out an element to the right or the left, such that text wraps around it? That’s an easy task for the float property. But what about if you also want to push that element (let’s call it …

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Temani Afif on Apr 19, 2021 (Updated on May 21, 2024)
Direct link to the article Is CSS float deprecated?
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Is CSS float deprecated?

An interesting conversation came up at work the other day: Should we use the CSS float property now that we have CSS Grid and Flexbox?…

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Robin Rendle on Feb 11, 2021
Direct link to the article In Defense of Tables and Floats in Modern Day Development
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In Defense of Tables and Floats in Modern Day Development

Twenty-plus years ago, tables were the main way web pages were created in HTML. It gave web builders consistent control of constructing pages with some “design.” No longer did sites only have to be top-to-bottom in a linear manner — …

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John Macpherson on Oct 30, 2020
Direct link to the article Float Element in the Middle of a Paragraph
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Float Element in the Middle of a Paragraph

Say you want to have an image (or any other element) visually float left into a paragraph of text. But like… in the middle of the paragraph, not right at the top. It’s doable, but it’s certainly in the realm …

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Chris Coyier on Nov 4, 2019
Direct link to the article The Media Object, A Bunch of Ways
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The Media Object, A Bunch of Ways

The Media Object pattern is: image thingy on the left, heading and text on the right.

That’s what Nicole Sullivan called it and the name stuck. It’s a pretty simple pattern, but like all things web design, it can …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 28, 2017
Direct link to the article All About Floats
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All About Floats

Float is a CSS positioning property. To understand its purpose and origin, we can look to print design. In a print layout, images may be set into the page such that text wraps around them as needed. This is commonly and appropriately called "text wrap".
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Chris Coyier on Jul 8, 2009 (Updated on Mar 25, 2021)

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