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Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read)

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On 26/02/2016 15:38, bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 2:27:54 AM UTC+5:30, Calum wrote:
>> On 21/02/2016 17:33,  wrote:
>>
>>
>> is as tall as it needs to be for all its contents to be visible,
>
> Ahh this grabbed me - sometimes on Linux with God knows what fonts I
> have installed, text would flow out of a box - how was this?

That can happen if the box has been set to a specific size. In that 
case, by default the text will overflow out of it, unless you tell it to 
do otherwise (your other options would be to have the text clip or scroll).

> This is something I'm curious about - what exactly is "floating"?
> I've *read* about it, but I still don't think I really *get* it
> yet.....

It basically forces a box over to the left or right side of its 
enclosing box (which may be the page itself), allowing the text to flow 
around it. This is quite a good description:

<https://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats/>

> OK, is there any webpage I can go to, to get in deeper? I HAVE and
> have READ a CSS book, but despite being very informative, it wasn't
> any *fun*.... :(

Hard to recommend anything without knowing what you'd consider 'fun', 
but if you want something a bit more interactive, Bart Busschots is 
currently doing a combined blog and podcast that builds up from HTML 
basics through CSS and (eventually) JavaScript, that might be of interest:
<https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/blog/programming-by-stealth/>

If you're already comfortable with HTML, you can skip ahead a bit to 
episode 6 or so.

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The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-21 09:33 -0800
  Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-21 20:57 +0000
    Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-02-22 11:04 +0000
      Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-22 12:00 +0000
    Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-26 07:38 -0800
      Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-27 13:22 +0000
        Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-02 02:19 -0800
          Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-02 13:58 +0000
            Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-06 22:55 -0800
              Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 10:25 +0000
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-07 07:03 -0800
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 15:33 +0000
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-07 17:37 +0000
              Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-07 18:41 +0000
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-13 08:55 -0700
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-13 16:44 +0000
  Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-02-22 11:01 +0000
    Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-26 08:34 -0800
      Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-02-28 11:04 +0000
        Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-28 11:34 +0000

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