Posted by Mark Parnell on 09/25/60 11:24

Previously in alt.html, Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com>
said:

> If the <p> text is short, the <hr> element will be squeezed between the floating
> image and the right edge of the viewport. I need the <hr> element to sit below
> the bottom edge of the image. According to what I read on the Net,

Don't believe everything you read on the Net. Most of it is wrong, to
varying degrees.

> I can easily
> achieve that by first clearing the floaters through a <br> element with a
> 'clear' attribute

That will work, though with side effects, as you noticed:

> This works, but unfortunately the <br> element has an unwanted side effect - it
> introduces a line break,

That's what a <br> is for. ;-)

Hint: add the clear attribute to the <hr> instead.

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Mark Parnell
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