- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 06:04:16 -0700
- To: Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net>
- Cc: "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kanghaol@oupeng.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net> wrote: > We are using either a floated block, an inline-block or a non-floated > block with a clearfix hack, often mainly in order to simply have blocks > vertically stacked (e.g. header, nav, main, footer) without any unwanted > "freaking" spacing issues or background holes. You'd think one could very > simple things like that by now with no hacks. You can, with Flexbox. Actual float clearing is needed very rarely when using floats for their intended purpose of floating some figure next to some text. It's just the hacky method of using floats for layout that needs it so often. ~TJ
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