Posts Tagged ‘Layout’
Understanding Floats in CSS - Making a 3-column layout
Written by Jai on April 11, 2008 – 2:41 pm - 6,259 views
Sharing knowledge is cool and if your audience is willing to learn - its Uber cool! 
With that note, here is my little contribution towards the code monkeys.
This article is meant for the people who are beginners or are in the mid-way of learning CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). When I started learning CSS, the most difficult problem that I faced was using floats and how to align and position the divisions (DIVs) in a page.
In a pure CSS based design, the formula for coding your layout lies in the fact, as to how best you can position your DIV tags. In this article, I will try and give you a better understanding of using the float property of CSS to position your elements.
Let us assume that we want to create a 3-column layout for our new WordPress theme. I am taking up this example because many people do not understand how to do this and have asked me questions in the past about this technique. In this tutorial, I am assuming that you know the basics of HTML. Read more
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