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One of the basic and the most important properties every web designer should learn is the float property. It is most commonly used for floating text around the image or creating the two column layout. The float property can cause a lot of frustration and confusion if it is not completely understood, so let’s make those confusions disappear with this short but thorough explanation.

CSS Basics: The Float Property

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Have you ever wondered how computers store the floating-point numbers like `3.1415` (𝝿) or in the memory which consists of a bunch of ones and zeroes?

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How to Design a Grid-based Framework Using the CSS Float Property

A little while ago we wrote about the float property. So, now is a good time to explain the clear property.  

How to Clear Floats using clear-float property

As a beginners sometimes we are trying to learn and understand about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the huge amount of documentation and tutorials we can find on internet, as a Microverse student I also spend some time working on different challenges and having the chance to apply this different approaches on my projects like Float, Flexbox and Grid, for sure I have to mention that even after facing some cloning site projects I don't consider myself an expert but this help me to have a better idea about working with this approaches; after my firsts steps I fell like making an article about my experience on this CSS & HTML path and maybe this will help other beginners to have a fast view and better understanding about it.

The Different Ways to Start Project using Floats, Flexbox, and Grid CSS

Great web design comes with great shapes that make the website have the looks it deserves. In the past, web applications were usually described as being made of boxes. Meaning, anything you see on the website is enclosed in a box. Now we can confidently say that websites are not only made of boxes but different varieties of shapes.

How To Use CSS Shape-Outside, Clip-Path With The Float CSS Property

If you are a user of applications like Periscope, Instagram and Facebook, then you may have noticed they have a feature in their live streams where anytime someone likes the live content, the ‘likes’ float on your screen. This article will show you how you can implement the realtime floating hearts feature on your iOS application using Swift and Pusher.

Build a floating hearts effect in Swift

This was originally a lecture from <a href="http://www.materialise.com/en/careers/ukraine/materialise-academy-c?Source=techblog" target="_blank">Materialise Academy C++</a>&nbsp;. Since we don’t sell education, we benefit from it, it is only logical to share our teaching materials with the rest of the world.

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Raw measurements don’t tell the full story. 

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CSS Basics: The Float Property

The Floating Point Error

Forget Mars—The Real Future of Colonization Is Floating in Space

The Crypto Scam You’re Falling For: Low Float, High FDV Tokens Exposed!

Deep Learning Runs on Floating-Point Math. What If That’s a Mistake?

Damn Near Every Digital Service is Ripping You Off to Float Free-riders

A Floating City and The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne - Table of Links

The Bonadventure passed exactly where the bottle was still floating

We Will Float in This Sphere with No Occupation

My Wish For a Gyroscopic Floating Table

How to Make the Floating Balloons 🎈Effect in ReactJS

An Essential Guide to Binary Representation of Floating-Point Numbers

How to Design a Grid-based Framework Using the CSS Float Property

How to Clear Floats using clear-float property

The Different Ways to Start Project using Floats, Flexbox, and Grid CSS

How To Use CSS Shape-Outside, Clip-Path With The Float CSS Property

Build a floating hearts effect in Swift

Floating point numbers explained with the Walpiri language, big boring tables, and a bit of algebra…

Why Measuring Time is Not Enough: a Practical Roofline Model for ML Training

How Light Broke the Human Mind

How AI Agents Helped Migrate a Data Lake From Snowflake to BigQuery

What a 1960s Philosophy Book Taught Me About Shipping Production AI

How to Grow Your Reach and Authority as a Writer

What Really Determines the Speed of Your PyTorch Code?

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