CSS clear Property – How to Clear Items from Floating Elements
clear specifies whether browsers should move the selected block-level element below its preceding floating element.
In other words, the clear
property says if browsers should clear away the selected block-level element from its preceding floating element’s side.
Examples of the CSS clear
Property
Below are some examples of how the CSS clear
property works.
Note the following:
clear: none
will not move the selected block-level element below its preceding floating element. This value is the default.clear: right
moves the selected block-level element below its preceding floating element on its right side.clear: left
moves the selected block-level element below its preceding floating element on its left side.clear: both
moves the selected block-level element below its preceding floating elements on its right and left sides.clear: initial
sets theclear
property to its default value.clear: inherit
inherits its parent element’sclear
property’s values.
Clear none of the image’s sides
div { border: 1px solid black; padding: 15px;}
.first-p { color: #0a2f35; float: left; margin: 0; width: 25%;}
.second-p { color: #f56038; float: right; margin: 0; width: 25%;}
img { display: block; clear: none; width: 50%;}
<div> <p class="first-p"> Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. </p> <p class="second-p"> It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn't listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then </p> <img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/02/05/13/02/waterfalls-4821153_960_720.jpg" alt="Waterfall" /></div>
The snippet above used the clear
property to specify that browsers should not move the image below its preceding floating elements.
Clear the image’s left side
div { border: 1px solid black; padding: 15px;}
.first-p { color: #0a2f35; float: left; margin: 0; width: 25%;}
.second-p { color: #f56038; float: right; margin: 0; width: 25%;}
img { display: block; clear: left; width: 50%;}
<div> <p class="first-p"> Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. </p> <p class="second-p"> It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn't listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then </p> <img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/02/05/13/02/waterfalls-4821153_960_720.jpg" alt="Waterfall" /></div>
The snippet above used the clear
property to move the image below its preceding floating element on its left side.
Clear the image’s right side
div { border: 1px solid black; padding: 15px;}
.first-p { color: #0a2f35; float: left; margin: 0; width: 25%;}
.second-p { color: #f56038; float: right; margin: 0; width: 25%;}
img { display: block; clear: right; width: 50%;}
<div> <p class="first-p"> Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. </p> <p class="second-p"> It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. </p> <img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/02/05/13/02/waterfalls-4821153_960_720.jpg" alt="Waterfall" /></div>
The snippet above used the clear
property to move the image below its preceding floating element on its right side.
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Clear both sides of the image
div { border: 1px solid black; padding: 15px;}
.first-p { color: #0a2f35; float: left; margin: 0; width: 25%;}
.second-p { color: #f56038; float: right; margin: 0; width: 25%;}
img { display: block; clear: both; width: 50%;}
<div> <p class="first-p"> Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. </p> <p class="second-p"> It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. </p> <img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/02/05/13/02/waterfalls-4821153_960_720.jpg" alt="Waterfall" /></div>
The snippet above used the clear
property to move the image below its preceding floating elements on its right and left sides.