Comments on: Float vs. Inline-Block

By: Emma

Emma — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:18:00 +0000

Great post! For a long time I have been wondering how to get around the clear:both; issue. And all this time all I needed to do was set overflow hidden on the parent container Thanks again!

By: Jerem

Jerem — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:48:00 +0000

The best way to help them to update their browsers is not coding anymore for them. If most of the websites they visit do not display well, they will wonder about it.

By: Adriano Martino

Adriano Martino — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:11:00 +0000

Well, for the moment it’s better to use floats without adding conditionals. In the future it’s good to use both. One difference is that with the float you can actually have an element before in the markup and put it after with a float right. That is a feature that the inline-block does not offer. As for the height especially for menus I use line-height.

By: Ben Miller

Ben Miller — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:34:00 +0000

cheers! was getting really ****ed off with my divs ignoring thier floating children!

By: Micah Mutrux

Micah Mutrux — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:51:00 +0000

In general I also feel good about anything I can do to help rid the web of IE 6/7. But the war isn’t over yet. Yes, both versions have single digit percentage shares of overall usage, but there are still some concentrated pockets. In a recent project I did for a company that provides public insurance comparisons we found that 80% of their visitors are still using XP and IE 7 or 8.

By: Detlev Kemps

Detlev Kemps — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:04:00 +0000

Definitely useful. Regarding IE6 and IE7, I would recommend to any developers to ignore it. Why? Because IE7 is from 2006 and IE6 from 2001. The percentage of people currently using it consists out of developers for testing purposes. The real consumer world does not use it anymore, period.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:34:00 +0000

Once IE 6 and 7 become obsolete inline-blocks should become more prevalent than floats.

By: Thomas Kettner

Thomas Kettner — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:27:00 +0000

Great Article! Not only from a technical perspective but also easy to read and perfectly stressed.
Thanks for that.

By: Myke

Myke — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:43:00 +0000

probably one of the most informative posts i’ve ever read about floats and display-inline. Thank you SOOOO much for this article.

By: Richard Walton

Richard Walton — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Great article. Answered all of my questions.
I think I’ll be sticking with floats, for the most part.