"Timwi" == Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> writes:
Anders Wegge Jakobsen wrote:
> <br style="clear: right;" /> is pretty damm usefull when there's
> more
> than one floated image on a page.
No, not at all. Such br's often break floating
images, especially
when there is more than one on a page.
Why say break, when it's the intended purpose?
Remember that the *right*-floating images
(left-floating on LTR
wikis) have a "clear:right" (resp. clear:left) attribute
themselves. This means that right-floating images will display
underneath each other and never next to each other.
I'm talking about pages like
<http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonde_%28skak%29>, which would look
quite broken if the text could not be aligned where it's supposed to
be.
...
If you add a <br style="clear: right;"
/>, you will cause not only
other images, but also text and headings to move below existing
right-floating images.
Often, that's the point of doing so.
This usually generates a lot of unnecessary vertical
space. I really
really hate it when people do that when they should have added the
"clear:right" to a table that was missing it.
That's a whole other matter than the practice of bringing floating
pictures into the vicinity of the text describing them.
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