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CSS Best Practice #3: Clear Floated Containers (with Height||Width and Overflow)

I know you\’ve done it before. I think we\’ve all done it. You have a container with a floated element inside. The container doesn\’t wrap around everything, thus causing the element to break outside of the container. To fix this, we\’d usually add a clear element at the bottom of the container so it would wrap everything within. But there is a better solution, which uses two CSS properties. For this example, I\’ll place the styles inline.. please don\’t hate me. Continue reading CSS Best Practice #3: Clear Floated Containers (with Height||Width and Overflow)

CSS Best Practice #2: Shorthand Properties

Write your CSS rules with shorthand properties. It keeps things simple and clean.

.example {
    /* long */
    padding-top:1px;
    padding-right:2px;
    padding-bottom:3px;
    padding-left:4px;

    /* short */
    padding:1px 2px 3px 4px;
}

To help you with the shorthand, Dustin Diaz took the time to put together a CSS shorthand guide. Way to go Dustin! Check the guide for in-depth descriptions, examples, and Dustins \”quirky facts\” (such as shorthand defaults).

SitePoint CSS Reference is another source for shorthand properties, or any property in general, you should/could/would use.