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CSS Trickery

15th August 2002

New CSS Experiment: Trickery with Floats and Negative Margins, inspired by this message on css-discuss. By applying both position: relative and a negative margin to a floated element it is possible to pull it out of the flow of text in to the margin of the document. I have used a variant of this technique in the third revision of my SitePoint in CSS demonstration.

Posted 15th August 2002 at 4:06 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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