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CSS CSS Layout Basics Page Layout with the Float Property Creating a Horizontal Navigation with Floats

Posted by anonymous123
anonymous123
5,794 Points

horizontal navigation with floats

"With floats, we don't have to worry about the the extra whitespace that can appear when using inline or inline-block display." "Floated elements will sit adjacent to each other regardless of the HTML whitespace between them."

we never changed the display value of any of the elements we worked with. why are they acting like inline block elements? Im very confused.

1 Answer

Michael Shields
Michael Shields
12,650 Points
Michael Shields
Michael Shields
12,650 Points

The <a> elements that are descendants of the <h1 class="name"> and the <ul class="main-nav"> elements are declared as block-level display in our style.css file.

When we declare a float value we are manipulating the normal document flow. That floated element now accepts all block-level element values like width, height, padding, and margin, BUT the floated element doesn't exist on it's own line (i.e. doesn't create HTML whitespace before and after the element like a block-level <div> would) and the surrounding content flows around it, behaving like an inline element would.