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CSS – Understanding How Float Works – Part 2

Delving deeper into how floating elements position themselves side-to-side instead of top-to-bottom.

Front-End Basics

CSS – Understanding How Float Works – Part 1

The behaviour of floats can be mysterious (or frustrating). This tutorial helps take away some of the mystery (and pain) of dealing with floats.

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CSS – Introducing float

HTML elements can do more than stack one atop the other or nest one inside the other, they can also float above other elements.

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A Page <div>ided

A worked example using <div> for sectioning content and 'margin:auto' for centering.

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Sectioning Using HTML and Auto Centering Content

We saw that you can style the <body> tag to contain your content. In this tutorial, we'll see a better way.

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Example Page Where the Content is not Flush with the Left Side

Take your first step toward styling a page where the content is centred (sort of).

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Nine More CSS Properties to Play With

Expand your CSS styling vocabulary with 9 more properties and expand your knowledge of margin and padding.

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Five Examples Using CSS Selectors

Some worked examples of using various CSS selectors.

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CSS – Selecting Specific Elements for Styling

Learn how to selectively style only parts of your document.

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HTML Flow and the CSS Box Model – the ‘Display’ Property

Not all HTML boxes behave the same. Learn why.

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A CSS Example with Boxes

An example displaying the CSS boxes.

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Introducing HTML Flow and the CSS Box Model

Knowing how HTML flows on the page and how CSS models HTML elements as boxes is essential to mastering front-end development.