[theme-reviewers] Clearing Floats

[Chip Bennett]

I like this approach better (if we need to make specific recommendations at
all.

And, regarding the matter being only "semantics" - well, yeah; that's the
point. Markup is *supposed* to be semantic.

Chip

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<philip at frumph.net>wrote:

>  Coincidently you can do <br class="clear-margins" />
>
>
> .clear-margins
> {
>
> clear: both;
>
> height: 0;
>
> line-height: 0;
>
> font-size: 0;
>
> }
>
> and look, it's no longer an empty div.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:06 AM
> *Subject:* [theme-reviewers] Clearing Floats
>
> I've noticed on several reviews, the recommendation to add a "clearfix"
> <div> beneath the_content()/the_excerpt().
>
> I'm wondering: should we *really* be making this recommendation? I've
> always considered an empty div whose sole purpose for existence is to ensure
> that floats are cleared to be a method of last resort.
>
> I'm just wondering, since we don't make many other markup-practice
> recommendations with respect to conformance to the Guidelines. Might it be
> better simply to state "ensure that floats introduced by
> the_content()/the_excerpt() are cleared"?
>
> Chip
>
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