Comments on: Random CSS Thought: Vertical-float

By: Evgania

Evgania — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:36:09 +0000

@Mario Aguilera – everything CAN be done! we might not know HOW to yet, but it can be done!!

Imagine what people thought of a TV or computer at some stage… you wanna tell me you can’t float a CSS element to the bottom… :)

By: Mario Aguilera

Mario Aguilera — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:23:45 +0000

It can’t be done. The browsers are implemented to, unless told otherwise, determine element heights dynamically based on width. The vertical float property would work if the height of the container were static or could be determined at all times, but that’s not the case. I heard this discussion somewhere from people who understood the depth of the problem.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:42:33 +0000

Would be decent yeah… I wanted to vertically float something at the bottom right of a table cell earlier… you can’t absolutely position it because the table repeats with different data-base driven content or different sizes!

So i’ve had to drop what I wanted and resort to something else

By: Hawkon

Hawkon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:12:02 +0000

I was looking for something like this too, and found a solution.
In my case, I needed it to float left down. When I used float and clear, I got the results I wanted :D

By: josh

josh — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:07:22 +0000

i assumed it did exist…i mean it’s such a basic basic concept…i found this page while trying to find whether there was such as thing as float:below or sink etc.

By: Kilian Valkhof

Kilian Valkhof — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:03:30 +0000

*hides behind his #1 excuse*

Once I get my custom design done, I’ll add it in :)

By: Guy Fraser

Guy Fraser — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:46:30 +0000

Sweet idea Kilian! And why can’t I use rel attrs in link tags on your blog? :p

By: Ranjani

Ranjani — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:54:54 +0000

I love the idea. It would make header and footer images so much easier to align, instead of worrying negative margins, etc.

You’re on a roll, Kil :D

By: Paul Chaplin

Paul Chaplin — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:53:27 +0000

Without looking at any potential technical drawbacks there might be, I fully agree with this one. Something like this really should have been there in the first place, because the problem is just begging for a clean solution. I can’t believe that the CSS spec. authors never even considered the problem this would solve, so I wonder if it was just too technically awkward to implement.

Another thing for CSS 3.1, maybe? ;)