rocknbil - 4:10 pm on Jun 29, 2011 (gmt 0)

Another good way to do this is the "shrink wrap" approach. It relies on the basic fact that a floated container will contain any children floated within it. So if you float everything left (or right,) float the parent container too. This is useful if you want to cut down on the number of clearing elements you need in your markup - most clearing elements are empty junk with no inherent semantic meaning.