Floating
elements (floats)
An
element can be floated to the right or to left by using the property float .
That is to say that the box with its contents either floats to the
right or to the left in a document (or the containing box) (see for a description
of the Box
model). The following figure illustrates the principle:

If
we for example would like to have a text wrapping around a picture, the
result would be like this:
float can be
set as either left, right or none.
The
property clear
The clear property
is used to control how the subsequent elements of floated elements in a
document shall behave.
By
default, the subsequent elements are moved up to fill the available
space which will be freed when a box is floated to a side.
The
property clear can
assume the values left, right, both or none.
The principle is, if clear .
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