What methods of clearfix can I use

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I have the age-old problem of a div wrapping a two-column layout  My sidebar is floated  so my container div fails to wrap the content and sidebar    lt div id  container  gt     lt div id  content  gt  lt  div gt     lt div id  sidebar  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt    There seem to be numerous methods of fixing the clear bug in Firefox     lt br clear  all   gt  overflow auto overflow hidden   In my situation  the only one that seems to work correctly is the  lt br clear  all   gt  solution  which is a little bit scruffy  overflow auto gives me nasty scrollbars  and overflow hidden must surely have side effects  Also  IE7 apparently shouldn t suffer from this problem due to its incorrect behaviour  but in my situation it s suffering the same as Firefox   Which method currently available to us is the most robust

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A clearfix is a way for an element to automatically clear after itself, so that you don't need to add additional markup.

.clearfix:after {
   content: " "; /* Older browser do not support empty content */
   visibility: hidden;
   display: block;
   height: 0;
   clear: both;
}
.cleaner {
  clear: both;
}

Normally you would need to do something as follows:

<div style="float: left;">Sidebar</div>
<div class="cleaner"></div> <!-- Clear the float -->

With clearfix, you only need to

<div style="float: left;" class="clearfix">Sidebar</div>
<!-- No Clearing div! -->

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The overflow property can be used to clear floats with no additional mark-up    container   overflow  hidden      This works for all browsers except IE6  where all you need to do is enable hasLayout  zoom being my preferred method     container   zoom  1      http   www quirksmode org css clearing html

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I recommend using the following  which is taken from http   html5boilerplate com       gt  gt  The Magnificent CLEARFIX  lt  lt        clearfix after      content          display  block     height  0     clear  both     visibility  hidden      clearfix      display  inline-block        html  clearfix       height  1          Hides from IE-mac      clearfix       display  block

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honestly  all solutions seem to be a hack to fix a rendering bug     am i wrong   i ve found  lt br clear  all    gt  to be the easiest  simplest  seeing class  clearfix  everywhere can t stroke the sensibilities of someone who objects to extraneous markeup elements  can it  you re just painting the problem on a different canvas   i also use the display  hidden solution  which is great and requires no extra class declarations or html markup     but sometimes you need the elements to overflow the container  for eg  pretty ribbons and sashes

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x000D   x000D   content float left   x000D   sidebar float left   x000D   clear clear both  display block  height 0px  width 0px  overflow hidden   x000D   lt div id  container  gt  x000D     lt div id  content  gt text 1  lt  div gt  x000D     lt div id  sidebar  gt text 2 lt  div gt  x000D     lt div class  clear  gt  lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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It is so simple clearfix clears the issue by when we using the float properties inside the div element If we use two div elements one as float left  and other one as float right  we can use clearfix for the parent of the two div element  If we refuse to use clearfix unnecessary spaces fill with contents below and site structure will be broken

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I d float  content too  that way both columns contain floats  Also because it will allow you to clear elements inside  content without clearing the side bar   Same thing with the wrapper  you d need to make it a block formatting context to wrap the two columns   This article mentions a few triggers you can use  block formatting contexts

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I ve found a bug in the official CLEARFIX-Method  The DOT doesn t have a font-size  And if you set the height   0 and the first Element in your DOM-Tree has the class  clearfix  you ll allways have a margin at the bottom of the page of 12px     You have to fix it like this      float clearing for everyone else     clearfix after    clear  both    content         display  block    height  0    visibility  hidden    font-size  0      It s now part of the YAML-Layout     Just take a look at it - it s very interesting  http   www yaml de en home html

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You could also put this in your CSS    cb after    visibility  hidden    display  block    content         clear  both    height  0       first-child html  cb zoom  1     for IE7      And add class  cb  to your parent div    lt div id  container  class  cb  gt    You will not need to add anything else to your original code

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Assuming you re using this HTML structure    lt div id  container  gt     lt div id  content  gt     lt  div gt     lt div id  sidebar  gt     lt  div gt   lt  div gt    Here s the CSS that I would use   div container       overflow  hidden        makes element contain floated child elements       div content  div sidebar       float  left      display  inline        preemptively fixes IE6 dobule-margin bug        I use this set all the time and it works fine for me  even in IE6

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I always use the micro-clearfix     cf before   cf after       content           display  table      cf after       clear  both            For IE 6 7 only      cf        zoom  1      In Cascade Framework I even apply it by default on block level elements  IMO  applying it by default on block level elements gives block level elements more intuitive behavior than their traditonal behavior  It also made it a lot easier for me to add support for older browsers to Cascade Framework  which supports IE6-8 as well as modern browsers

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I always float the main sections of my grid and apply clear  both  to the footer  That doesn t require an extra div or class

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I ve found a bug in the official CLEARFIX-Method  The DOT doesn t have a font-size  And if you set the height   0 and the first Element in your DOM-Tree has the class  clearfix  you ll allways have a margin at the bottom of the page of 12px     You have to fix it like this      float clearing for everyone else     clearfix after    clear  both    content         display  block    height  0    visibility  hidden    font-size  0      It s now part of the YAML-Layout     Just take a look at it - it s very interesting  http   www yaml de en home html

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Have you tried this    lt div style  clear both    gt    I haven t had any problems with this method

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This is quite a tidy solution       For modern browsers     cf before   cf after       content         display table      cf after       clear both        For IE 6 7  trigger hasLayout      cf       zoom 1         It s known to work in Firefox 3 5   Safari 4   Chrome  Opera 9   IE 6       Including the  before selector is not necessary to clear the floats    but it prevents top-margins from collapsing in modern browsers  This   ensures that there is visual consistency with IE 6 7 when zoom 1 is   applied    From http   nicolasgallagher com micro-clearfix-hack

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With SASS  the clearfix is    mixin clearfix        amp  before   amp  after           content              display  table             amp  after           clear  both             zoom  1      and it s used like    container         include clearfix      if you want the new clearfix    mixin newclearfix        amp  after           content             display table          clear both

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The new standard  as used by Inuit css and Bourbon - two very widely used and well-maintained CSS Sass frameworks    btcf after       content         display block      clear both        Notes  Keep in mind that clearfixes are essentially a hack for what flexbox layouts can now provide in a much smarter way  CSS floats were originally designed for inline content to flow around - like images in a long textual article - and not for grid layouts and the like  If your target browsers support flexbox  it s worth looking into   This doesn t support IE7  You shouldn t be supporting IE7  Doing so continues to expose users to unfixed security exploits and makes life harder for all other web developers  as it reduces the pressure on users and organisations to switch to modern browsers   This clearfix was announced and explained by Thierry Koblentz in July 2012  It sheds unnecessary weight from Nicolas Gallagher s 2011 micro-clearfix  In the process  it frees a pseudo-element for your own use  This has been updated to use display  block rather than display  table  again  credit to Thierry Koblentz

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This is quite a tidy solution       For modern browsers     cf before   cf after       content         display table      cf after       clear both        For IE 6 7  trigger hasLayout      cf       zoom 1         It s known to work in Firefox 3 5   Safari 4   Chrome  Opera 9   IE 6       Including the  before selector is not necessary to clear the floats    but it prevents top-margins from collapsing in modern browsers  This   ensures that there is visual consistency with IE 6 7 when zoom 1 is   applied    From http   nicolasgallagher com micro-clearfix-hack

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The new standard  as used by Inuit css and Bourbon - two very widely used and well-maintained CSS Sass frameworks    btcf after       content         display block      clear both        Notes  Keep in mind that clearfixes are essentially a hack for what flexbox layouts can now provide in a much smarter way  CSS floats were originally designed for inline content to flow around - like images in a long textual article - and not for grid layouts and the like  If your target browsers support flexbox  it s worth looking into   This doesn t support IE7  You shouldn t be supporting IE7  Doing so continues to expose users to unfixed security exploits and makes life harder for all other web developers  as it reduces the pressure on users and organisations to switch to modern browsers   This clearfix was announced and explained by Thierry Koblentz in July 2012  It sheds unnecessary weight from Nicolas Gallagher s 2011 micro-clearfix  In the process  it frees a pseudo-element for your own use  This has been updated to use display  block rather than display  table  again  credit to Thierry Koblentz

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Why just trying to use css hack to do what 1 line of HTML do the job  And why not to use semantic html tu put break to return to the line   Fo me is realy better to use      lt br style  clear both    gt    And if you don t want any style in your html you just have to use class for your break  and put  clear   clear both    in your CSS   Advantage of this    Semantic use of html for return to the line If no CSS load it will be working No need extra CSS code and Hack no need to simulate the br with CSS  it s already exist in HTML

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I always float the main sections of my grid and apply clear  both  to the footer  That doesn t require an extra div or class

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A clearfix is a way for an element to automatically clear after itself, so that you don't need to add additional markup.

.clearfix:after {
   content: " "; /* Older browser do not support empty content */
   visibility: hidden;
   display: block;
   height: 0;
   clear: both;
}
.cleaner {
  clear: both;
}

Normally you would need to do something as follows:

<div style="float: left;">Sidebar</div>
<div class="cleaner"></div> <!-- Clear the float -->

With clearfix, you only need to

<div style="float: left;" class="clearfix">Sidebar</div>
<!-- No Clearing div! -->

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Unlike other clearfixes  here is an open-ended one without containers Other clearfixes either require the floated element to be in a well marked off container or need an extra  semantically empty  lt div gt   Conversely  clear separation of content and markup requires a strict CSS solution to this problem  The mere fact that one needs to mark off the end of a float  does not allow for unattended CSS typesetting  If the latter is your goal  the float should be left open for anything  paragraphs  ordered and unordered lists etc   to wrap around it  until a  quot clearfix quot  is encountered  For example  the clearfix might be set by a new heading  This is why I use the following clearfix with new headings  h1       clear  both      display  inline-block      width  100      This solution gets used extensively on my website to solve the problem  The text next to a floated miniature is short and the top-margin of the next clearing object is not respected  It also prevents any manual intervention when automatically generating PDFs from the site  Here is an example page

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Have you tried this    lt div style  clear both    gt    I haven t had any problems with this method

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Using overflow hidden auto and height for ie6 will suffice if the floating container has a parent element    Either one of the  test could work  for the HTML stated below to clear floats    test     overflow hidden     or auto     height 1   forces hasLayout in IE6     lt div id  test  gt     lt div style  floatLeft  gt  lt  div gt     lt div style  random  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt    In cases when this refuses to work with ie6  just float the parent to clear float     test     float  left     using float to clear float   width  99       Never really needed any other kind of clearing yet  Maybe it s the way I write my HTML

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Assuming you re using this HTML structure    lt div id  container  gt     lt div id  content  gt     lt  div gt     lt div id  sidebar  gt     lt  div gt   lt  div gt    Here s the CSS that I would use   div container       overflow  hidden        makes element contain floated child elements       div content  div sidebar       float  left      display  inline        preemptively fixes IE6 dobule-margin bug        I use this set all the time and it works fine for me  even in IE6

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My Favourite Method is to create a clearfix class in my css   scss document as below    clearfix      clear both     And then call it in my html document as shown below    lt html gt     lt div class  div-number-one  gt      Some Content before the clearfix    lt  div gt      lt  -- Let s say we need to clearfix Here between these two divs --- gt     lt div class  clearfix  gt  lt  div gt      lt div class  div-number-two  gt      Some more content after the clearfix    lt  div gt   lt  html gt

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I recommend using the following  which is taken from http   html5boilerplate com       gt  gt  The Magnificent CLEARFIX  lt  lt        clearfix after      content          display  block     height  0     clear  both     visibility  hidden      clearfix      display  inline-block        html  clearfix       height  1          Hides from IE-mac      clearfix       display  block

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honestly  all solutions seem to be a hack to fix a rendering bug     am i wrong   i ve found  lt br clear  all    gt  to be the easiest  simplest  seeing class  clearfix  everywhere can t stroke the sensibilities of someone who objects to extraneous markeup elements  can it  you re just painting the problem on a different canvas   i also use the display  hidden solution  which is great and requires no extra class declarations or html markup     but sometimes you need the elements to overflow the container  for eg  pretty ribbons and sashes

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Clearfix from bootstrap    clearfix      zoom  1      clearfix before   clearfix after     display  table    line-height  0    content          clearfix after     clear  both

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My Favourite Method is to create a clearfix class in my css   scss document as below    clearfix      clear both     And then call it in my html document as shown below    lt html gt     lt div class  div-number-one  gt      Some Content before the clearfix    lt  div gt      lt  -- Let s say we need to clearfix Here between these two divs --- gt     lt div class  clearfix  gt  lt  div gt      lt div class  div-number-two  gt      Some more content after the clearfix    lt  div gt   lt  html gt

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Depending upon the design being produced  each of the below clearfix CSS solutions has its own benefits   The clearfix does have useful applications but it has also been used as a hack  Before you use a clearfix perhaps these modern css solutions can be useful    css flexbox css grid     Modern Clearfix Solutions    Container with overflow  auto   The simplest way to clear floated elements is using the style overflow  auto on the containing element  This solution works in every modern browsers    lt div style  overflow  auto   gt     lt img     style  float  right       src  path to floated-element png      width  500      height  500     gt      lt p gt Your content here    lt  p gt   lt  div gt    One downside  using certain combinations of margin and padding on the external element can cause scrollbars to appear but this can be solved by placing the margin and padding on another parent containing element   Using    overflow  hidden    is also a clearfix solution  but will not have scrollbars  however using hidden will crop any content positioned outside of the containing element   Note  The floated element is an img tag in this example  but could be any html element     Clearfix Reloaded  Thierry Koblentz on CSSMojo wrote  The very latest clearfix reloaded  He noted that by dropping support for oldIE  the solution can be simplified to one css statement  Additionally  using display  block  instead of display  table  allows margins to collapse properly when elements with clearfix are siblings    container  after     content        display  block    clear  both      This is the most modern version of the clearfix           Older Clearfix Solutions  The below solutions are not necessary for modern browsers  but may be useful for targeting older browsers   Note that these solutions rely upon browser bugs and therefore should be used only if none of the above solutions work for you   They are listed roughly in chronological order      Beat That ClearFix   a clearfix for modern browsers  Thierry Koblentz  of CSS Mojo has pointed out that when targeting modern browsers  we can now drop the zoom and   before property values and simply use    container  after       content          display  table      clear  both      This solution does not support for IE 6 7    on purpose   Thierry also offers   A word of caution  if you start a new project from scratch  go for it  but don   t swap this technique with the one you have now  because even though you do not support oldIE  your existing rules prevent collapsing margins      Micro Clearfix  The most recent and globally adopted clearfix solution  the Micro Clearfix by Nicolas Gallagher   Known support  Firefox 3 5   Safari 4   Chrome  Opera 9   IE 6    container  before   container  after     content        display  table     container  after     clear  both     container     zoom  1        Overflow Property  This basic method is preferred for the usual case  when positioned content will not show outside the bounds of the container   http   www quirksmode org css clearing html - explains how to resolve common issues related to this technique  namely  setting width  100  on the container    container     overflow  hidden    display  inline-block    display  block      Rather than using the display property to set  hasLayout  for IE  other properties can be used for triggering  hasLayout  for an element    container     overflow  hidden    zoom  1    display  block      Another way to clear floats using the overflow property is to use the underscore hack  IE will apply the values prefixed with the underscore  other browsers will not  The zoom property triggers hasLayout in IE    container     overflow  hidden     overflow  visible     for IE       zoom  1     for IE        While this works    it is not ideal to use hacks     PIE  Easy Clearing Method  This older  Easy Clearing  method has the advantage of allowing positioned elements to hang outside the bounds of the container  at the expense of more tricky CSS   This solution is quite old  but you can learn all about Easy Clearing on Position Is Everything  http   www positioniseverything net easyclearing html    Element using  clear  property  The quick and dirty solution  with some drawbacks  for when you   re quickly slapping something together    lt br style  clear  both    gt   lt  -- So dirty  -- gt    Drawbacks   It s not responsive and thus may not provide the desired effect if layout styles change based upon media queries  A solution in pure CSS is more ideal  It adds html markup without necessarily adding any semantic value  It requires a inline definition and solution for each instance rather than a class reference to a single solution of a    clearfix    in the css and class references to it in the html  It makes code difficult to work with for others as they may have to write more hacks to work around it  In the future when you need want to use another clearfix solution  you won t have to go back and remove every  lt br style  clear  both    gt  tag littered around the markup

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Given the huge amount of replies I was not gonna post  However  this method may help someone  as it did help me  Stay way from floats whenever possible It s worth to mention  I avoid floats like Ebola  There are many reasons and I am not alone  Read Rikudo answer about what is a clearfix and you ll see what I mean  In his own words     the use of floated elements for layout is getting more and more discouraged with the use of better alternatives    There are other good  and sometimes better  options out there other than floats  As technology advances and improves  flexbox  and other methods  are going to be widely adopted and floats will become just a bad memory  Maybe a CSS4   Float misbehavior and failed clears First off  sometimes  you may think that you are safe from floats until your lifesaver is punctured and your html flow starts to sink  In the codepen http   codepen io omarjuvera pen jEXBya below  the practice of clearing a float with  lt div classs  quot clear quot  gt  lt  div gt   or other element  is common but frown upon and anti-semantic   lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 1st lt  div gt   lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 2nd lt  div gt   lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 3nd lt  div gt   lt div classs  quot clear quot  gt  lt  div gt   lt  -- Acts as a wall -- gt   lt section gt Below lt  section gt   CSS div       border  1px solid  f00      width  200px      height  100px     div floated       float  left      clear       clear  both    section       border  1px solid  f0f     However  just when you thought your float is sail worthy   boom  As the screen size becomes smaller and smaller you see weird behaviors in like the graphic below  Same http   codepen io omarjuvera pen jEXBya    Why should you care  Roughly  about 80   or more  of the devices used are mobile devices with small screens  Desktop computers laptops are no longer king   It does not end there This is not the only problem with floats  There are many  but in this example  some may say all you have to do is to place your floats in a container  But as you can see in the codepen and graphic  that is not the case  It apparently made things worst  HTML  lt div id  quot container quot  class  quot  quot  gt     lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 1st lt  div gt     lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 2nd lt  div gt     lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 3nd lt  div gt   lt  div gt   lt  --   conteiner -- gt   lt div classs  quot clear quot  gt  lt  div gt   lt  -- Acts as a wall -- gt   lt section gt Below lt  section gt   CSS  container     min-height  100px     To prevent it from collapsing      border  1px solid  0f0     floated       float  left      border  1px solid  f00      width  200px      height  100px      clear       clear  both    section       border  1px solid  f0f     As for the result  It s the     same   Least you know  you ll start a CSS party  inviting all kinds of selectors and properties to the party  making a bigger mess of your CSS than what you started with  Just to fix your float   CSS Clearfix to the rescue This simple and very adaptable piece of CSS is a beauty and a  quot savior quot    clearfix before   clearfix after        content   quot  quot       display  table      clear  both      zoom  1     ie 6 7       That s it  It really works without breaking semantics and did I mention it works   From the same sample   HTML  lt div class  quot clearfix quot  gt       lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 1st lt  div gt       lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 2nd lt  div gt       lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 3nd lt  div gt   lt  div gt   lt section gt Below lt  section gt   CSS div floated       float  left      border  1px solid  f00      width  200px      height  100px    section           border  4px solid  00f       clearfix before   clearfix after        content   quot  quot       display  table      clear  both      zoom  1     ie 6 7        Now we no longer need  lt div classs  quot clear quot  gt  lt  div gt   lt  -- Acts as a wall -- gt  and keep the semantic police happy  This is not the only benefit  This clearfix is responsive to any screen size without the use of  media in it s simplest form  In other words  it will keep your float container in check and preventing floodings  Lastly  it provides support for old browsers all in one small karate chop    Here s the clearfix again  clearfix before   clearfix after        content   quot  quot       display  table      clear  both      zoom  1     ie 6 7

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Clearfix from bootstrap    clearfix      zoom  1      clearfix before   clearfix after     display  table    line-height  0    content          clearfix after     clear  both

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I ve found a bug in the official CLEARFIX-Method  The DOT doesn t have a font-size  And if you set the height   0 and the first Element in your DOM-Tree has the class  clearfix  you ll allways have a margin at the bottom of the page of 12px     You have to fix it like this      float clearing for everyone else     clearfix after    clear  both    content         display  block    height  0    visibility  hidden    font-size  0      It s now part of the YAML-Layout     Just take a look at it - it s very interesting  http   www yaml de en home html

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clearFix after        content          display  table        clear  both

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I d float  content too  that way both columns contain floats  Also because it will allow you to clear elements inside  content without clearing the side bar   Same thing with the wrapper  you d need to make it a block formatting context to wrap the two columns   This article mentions a few triggers you can use  block formatting contexts

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Depending upon the design being produced  each of the below clearfix CSS solutions has its own benefits   The clearfix does have useful applications but it has also been used as a hack  Before you use a clearfix perhaps these modern css solutions can be useful    css flexbox css grid     Modern Clearfix Solutions    Container with overflow  auto   The simplest way to clear floated elements is using the style overflow  auto on the containing element  This solution works in every modern browsers    lt div style  overflow  auto   gt     lt img     style  float  right       src  path to floated-element png      width  500      height  500     gt      lt p gt Your content here    lt  p gt   lt  div gt    One downside  using certain combinations of margin and padding on the external element can cause scrollbars to appear but this can be solved by placing the margin and padding on another parent containing element   Using    overflow  hidden    is also a clearfix solution  but will not have scrollbars  however using hidden will crop any content positioned outside of the containing element   Note  The floated element is an img tag in this example  but could be any html element     Clearfix Reloaded  Thierry Koblentz on CSSMojo wrote  The very latest clearfix reloaded  He noted that by dropping support for oldIE  the solution can be simplified to one css statement  Additionally  using display  block  instead of display  table  allows margins to collapse properly when elements with clearfix are siblings    container  after     content        display  block    clear  both      This is the most modern version of the clearfix           Older Clearfix Solutions  The below solutions are not necessary for modern browsers  but may be useful for targeting older browsers   Note that these solutions rely upon browser bugs and therefore should be used only if none of the above solutions work for you   They are listed roughly in chronological order      Beat That ClearFix   a clearfix for modern browsers  Thierry Koblentz  of CSS Mojo has pointed out that when targeting modern browsers  we can now drop the zoom and   before property values and simply use    container  after       content          display  table      clear  both      This solution does not support for IE 6 7    on purpose   Thierry also offers   A word of caution  if you start a new project from scratch  go for it  but don   t swap this technique with the one you have now  because even though you do not support oldIE  your existing rules prevent collapsing margins      Micro Clearfix  The most recent and globally adopted clearfix solution  the Micro Clearfix by Nicolas Gallagher   Known support  Firefox 3 5   Safari 4   Chrome  Opera 9   IE 6    container  before   container  after     content        display  table     container  after     clear  both     container     zoom  1        Overflow Property  This basic method is preferred for the usual case  when positioned content will not show outside the bounds of the container   http   www quirksmode org css clearing html - explains how to resolve common issues related to this technique  namely  setting width  100  on the container    container     overflow  hidden    display  inline-block    display  block      Rather than using the display property to set  hasLayout  for IE  other properties can be used for triggering  hasLayout  for an element    container     overflow  hidden    zoom  1    display  block      Another way to clear floats using the overflow property is to use the underscore hack  IE will apply the values prefixed with the underscore  other browsers will not  The zoom property triggers hasLayout in IE    container     overflow  hidden     overflow  visible     for IE       zoom  1     for IE        While this works    it is not ideal to use hacks     PIE  Easy Clearing Method  This older  Easy Clearing  method has the advantage of allowing positioned elements to hang outside the bounds of the container  at the expense of more tricky CSS   This solution is quite old  but you can learn all about Easy Clearing on Position Is Everything  http   www positioniseverything net easyclearing html    Element using  clear  property  The quick and dirty solution  with some drawbacks  for when you   re quickly slapping something together    lt br style  clear  both    gt   lt  -- So dirty  -- gt    Drawbacks   It s not responsive and thus may not provide the desired effect if layout styles change based upon media queries  A solution in pure CSS is more ideal  It adds html markup without necessarily adding any semantic value  It requires a inline definition and solution for each instance rather than a class reference to a single solution of a    clearfix    in the css and class references to it in the html  It makes code difficult to work with for others as they may have to write more hacks to work around it  In the future when you need want to use another clearfix solution  you won t have to go back and remove every  lt br style  clear  both    gt  tag littered around the markup

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Using overflow hidden auto and height for ie6 will suffice if the floating container has a parent element    Either one of the  test could work  for the HTML stated below to clear floats    test     overflow hidden     or auto     height 1   forces hasLayout in IE6     lt div id  test  gt     lt div style  floatLeft  gt  lt  div gt     lt div style  random  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt    In cases when this refuses to work with ie6  just float the parent to clear float     test     float  left     using float to clear float   width  99       Never really needed any other kind of clearing yet  Maybe it s the way I write my HTML

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With SASS  the clearfix is    mixin clearfix        amp  before   amp  after           content              display  table             amp  after           clear  both             zoom  1      and it s used like    container         include clearfix      if you want the new clearfix    mixin newclearfix        amp  after           content             display table          clear both

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x000D   x000D   content float left   x000D   sidebar float left   x000D   clear clear both  display block  height 0px  width 0px  overflow hidden   x000D   lt div id  container  gt  x000D     lt div id  content  gt text 1  lt  div gt  x000D     lt div id  sidebar  gt text 2 lt  div gt  x000D     lt div class  clear  gt  lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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A new display value seems to the job in one line   display  flow-root    From the W3 spec   The element generates a block container box  and lays out its contents using flow layout  It always establishes a new block formatting context for its contents    Information  https   www w3 org TR css-display-3  valdef-display-flow-root https   www chromestatus com feature 5769454877147136   As shown in the link above  support is currently limited so fallback support like below may be of use  https   github com fliptheweb postcss-flow-root

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With LESS  http   lesscss org    one can create a handy clearfix helper    clearfix       zoom  1     amp  before        content           display  block          amp  after        content           display  table       clear  both           And then use it with problematic containers  for example    lt  -- HTML -- gt   lt div id  container  gt     lt div id  content  gt  lt  div gt     lt div id  sidebar  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt       LESS    div container      clearfix

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Why just trying to use css hack to do what 1 line of HTML do the job  And why not to use semantic html tu put break to return to the line   Fo me is realy better to use      lt br style  clear both    gt    And if you don t want any style in your html you just have to use class for your break  and put  clear   clear both    in your CSS   Advantage of this    Semantic use of html for return to the line If no CSS load it will be working No need extra CSS code and Hack no need to simulate the br with CSS  it s already exist in HTML

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I have tried all these solutions  a big margin will be added to  lt html gt  element automatically when I use the code below    clearfix after          visibility  hidden         display  block         content              clear  both         height  0      Finally  I solved the margin problem by adding font-size  0  to the above CSS

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Unlike other clearfixes  here is an open-ended one without containers Other clearfixes either require the floated element to be in a well marked off container or need an extra  semantically empty  lt div gt   Conversely  clear separation of content and markup requires a strict CSS solution to this problem  The mere fact that one needs to mark off the end of a float  does not allow for unattended CSS typesetting  If the latter is your goal  the float should be left open for anything  paragraphs  ordered and unordered lists etc   to wrap around it  until a  quot clearfix quot  is encountered  For example  the clearfix might be set by a new heading  This is why I use the following clearfix with new headings  h1       clear  both      display  inline-block      width  100      This solution gets used extensively on my website to solve the problem  The text next to a floated miniature is short and the top-margin of the next clearing object is not respected  It also prevents any manual intervention when automatically generating PDFs from the site  Here is an example page

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The overflow property can be used to clear floats with no additional mark-up    container   overflow  hidden      This works for all browsers except IE6  where all you need to do is enable hasLayout  zoom being my preferred method     container   zoom  1      http   www quirksmode org css clearing html

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Have you tried this    lt div style  clear both    gt    I haven t had any problems with this method

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With LESS  http   lesscss org    one can create a handy clearfix helper    clearfix       zoom  1     amp  before        content           display  block          amp  after        content           display  table       clear  both           And then use it with problematic containers  for example    lt  -- HTML -- gt   lt div id  container  gt     lt div id  content  gt  lt  div gt     lt div id  sidebar  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt       LESS    div container      clearfix

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What problems are we trying to solve   There are two important considerations when floating stuff    Containing descendant floats  This means that the element in question makes itself tall enough to wrap all floating descendants   They don t hang outside     Insulating descendants from outside floats  This means that descendants inside of an element should be able to use clear  both and have it not interact with floats outside the element      Block formatting contexts  There s only one way to do both of these  And that is to establish a new block formatting context  Elements that establish a block formatting context are an insulated rectangle in which floats interact with each other  A block formatting context will always be tall enough to visually wrap its floating descendants  and no floats outside of a block formatting context may interact with elements inside  This two-way insulation is exactly what you want  In IE  this same concept is called hasLayout  which can be set via zoom  1   There are several ways to establish a block formatting context  but the solution I recommend is display  inline-block with width  100    Of course  there are the usual caveats with using width  100   so use box-sizing  border-box or put padding  margin  and border on a different element    The most robust solution  Probably the most common application of floats is the two-column layout   Can be extended to three columns    First the markup structure    lt div class  container  gt     lt div class  sidebar  gt      sidebar lt br  gt sidebar lt br  gt sidebar    lt  div gt     lt div class  main  gt       lt div class  main-content  gt        main content        lt span style  clear  both  gt          main content that uses  lt code gt clear  both lt  code gt         lt  span gt       lt  div gt     lt  div gt   lt  div gt    And now the CSS      Should contain all floated and non-floated content  so it needs to    establish a new block formatting context without using overflow  hidden       container     display  inline-block    width  100     zoom  1     new block formatting context via hasLayout for IE 6 7          Fixed-width floated sidebar      sidebar     float  left    width  160px        Needs to make space for the sidebar      main     margin-left  160px        Establishes a new block formatting context to insulate descendants from    the floating sidebar      main-content     display  inline-block    width  100     zoom  1     new block formatting context via hasLayout for IE 6 7        Try it yourself  Go to JS Bin to play around with the code and see how this solution is built from the ground up   Traditional clearfix methods considered harmful  The problem with the traditional clearfix solutions is that they use two different rendering concepts to achieve the same goal for IE and everyone else  In IE they use hasLayout to establish a new block formatting context  but for everyone else they use generated boxes   after  with clear  both  which does not establish a new block formatting context  This means things won t behave the same in all situations  For an explanation of why this is bad  see Everything you Know about Clearfix is Wrong

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I just use  -   clear after    clear  both    content        display  block      Works best and compatible with IE8

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It is so simple clearfix clears the issue by when we using the float properties inside the div element If we use two div elements one as float left  and other one as float right  we can use clearfix for the parent of the two div element  If we refuse to use clearfix unnecessary spaces fill with contents below and site structure will be broken

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Given the huge amount of replies I was not gonna post  However  this method may help someone  as it did help me  Stay way from floats whenever possible It s worth to mention  I avoid floats like Ebola  There are many reasons and I am not alone  Read Rikudo answer about what is a clearfix and you ll see what I mean  In his own words     the use of floated elements for layout is getting more and more discouraged with the use of better alternatives    There are other good  and sometimes better  options out there other than floats  As technology advances and improves  flexbox  and other methods  are going to be widely adopted and floats will become just a bad memory  Maybe a CSS4   Float misbehavior and failed clears First off  sometimes  you may think that you are safe from floats until your lifesaver is punctured and your html flow starts to sink  In the codepen http   codepen io omarjuvera pen jEXBya below  the practice of clearing a float with  lt div classs  quot clear quot  gt  lt  div gt   or other element  is common but frown upon and anti-semantic   lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 1st lt  div gt   lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 2nd lt  div gt   lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 3nd lt  div gt   lt div classs  quot clear quot  gt  lt  div gt   lt  -- Acts as a wall -- gt   lt section gt Below lt  section gt   CSS div       border  1px solid  f00      width  200px      height  100px     div floated       float  left      clear       clear  both    section       border  1px solid  f0f     However  just when you thought your float is sail worthy   boom  As the screen size becomes smaller and smaller you see weird behaviors in like the graphic below  Same http   codepen io omarjuvera pen jEXBya    Why should you care  Roughly  about 80   or more  of the devices used are mobile devices with small screens  Desktop computers laptops are no longer king   It does not end there This is not the only problem with floats  There are many  but in this example  some may say all you have to do is to place your floats in a container  But as you can see in the codepen and graphic  that is not the case  It apparently made things worst  HTML  lt div id  quot container quot  class  quot  quot  gt     lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 1st lt  div gt     lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 2nd lt  div gt     lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 3nd lt  div gt   lt  div gt   lt  --   conteiner -- gt   lt div classs  quot clear quot  gt  lt  div gt   lt  -- Acts as a wall -- gt   lt section gt Below lt  section gt   CSS  container     min-height  100px     To prevent it from collapsing      border  1px solid  0f0     floated       float  left      border  1px solid  f00      width  200px      height  100px      clear       clear  both    section       border  1px solid  f0f     As for the result  It s the     same   Least you know  you ll start a CSS party  inviting all kinds of selectors and properties to the party  making a bigger mess of your CSS than what you started with  Just to fix your float   CSS Clearfix to the rescue This simple and very adaptable piece of CSS is a beauty and a  quot savior quot    clearfix before   clearfix after        content   quot  quot       display  table      clear  both      zoom  1     ie 6 7       That s it  It really works without breaking semantics and did I mention it works   From the same sample   HTML  lt div class  quot clearfix quot  gt       lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 1st lt  div gt       lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 2nd lt  div gt       lt div class  quot floated quot  gt 3nd lt  div gt   lt  div gt   lt section gt Below lt  section gt   CSS div floated       float  left      border  1px solid  f00      width  200px      height  100px    section           border  4px solid  00f       clearfix before   clearfix after        content   quot  quot       display  table      clear  both      zoom  1     ie 6 7        Now we no longer need  lt div classs  quot clear quot  gt  lt  div gt   lt  -- Acts as a wall -- gt  and keep the semantic police happy  This is not the only benefit  This clearfix is responsive to any screen size without the use of  media in it s simplest form  In other words  it will keep your float container in check and preventing floodings  Lastly  it provides support for old browsers all in one small karate chop    Here s the clearfix again  clearfix before   clearfix after        content   quot  quot       display  table      clear  both      zoom  1     ie 6 7

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I always use the micro-clearfix     cf before   cf after       content           display  table      cf after       clear  both            For IE 6 7 only      cf        zoom  1      In Cascade Framework I even apply it by default on block level elements  IMO  applying it by default on block level elements gives block level elements more intuitive behavior than their traditonal behavior  It also made it a lot easier for me to add support for older browsers to Cascade Framework  which supports IE6-8 as well as modern browsers

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You could also put this in your CSS    cb after    visibility  hidden    display  block    content         clear  both    height  0       first-child html  cb zoom  1     for IE7      And add class  cb  to your parent div    lt div id  container  class  cb  gt    You will not need to add anything else to your original code

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I just use  -   clear after    clear  both    content        display  block      Works best and compatible with IE8

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I have tried all these solutions  a big margin will be added to  lt html gt  element automatically when I use the code below    clearfix after          visibility  hidden         display  block         content              clear  both         height  0      Finally  I solved the margin problem by adding font-size  0  to the above CSS

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A new display value seems to the job in one line   display  flow-root    From the W3 spec   The element generates a block container box  and lays out its contents using flow layout  It always establishes a new block formatting context for its contents    Information  https   www w3 org TR css-display-3  valdef-display-flow-root https   www chromestatus com feature 5769454877147136   As shown in the link above  support is currently limited so fallback support like below may be of use  https   github com fliptheweb postcss-flow-root

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Have you tried this    lt div style  clear both    gt    I haven t had any problems with this method

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clearFix after        content          display  table        clear  both

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I ve found a bug in the official CLEARFIX-Method  The DOT doesn t have a font-size  And if you set the height   0 and the first Element in your DOM-Tree has the class  clearfix  you ll allways have a margin at the bottom of the page of 12px     You have to fix it like this      float clearing for everyone else     clearfix after    clear  both    content         display  block    height  0    visibility  hidden    font-size  0      It s now part of the YAML-Layout     Just take a look at it - it s very interesting  http   www yaml de en home html

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What problems are we trying to solve   There are two important considerations when floating stuff    Containing descendant floats  This means that the element in question makes itself tall enough to wrap all floating descendants   They don t hang outside     Insulating descendants from outside floats  This means that descendants inside of an element should be able to use clear  both and have it not interact with floats outside the element      Block formatting contexts  There s only one way to do both of these  And that is to establish a new block formatting context  Elements that establish a block formatting context are an insulated rectangle in which floats interact with each other  A block formatting context will always be tall enough to visually wrap its floating descendants  and no floats outside of a block formatting context may interact with elements inside  This two-way insulation is exactly what you want  In IE  this same concept is called hasLayout  which can be set via zoom  1   There are several ways to establish a block formatting context  but the solution I recommend is display  inline-block with width  100    Of course  there are the usual caveats with using width  100   so use box-sizing  border-box or put padding  margin  and border on a different element    The most robust solution  Probably the most common application of floats is the two-column layout   Can be extended to three columns    First the markup structure    lt div class  container  gt     lt div class  sidebar  gt      sidebar lt br  gt sidebar lt br  gt sidebar    lt  div gt     lt div class  main  gt       lt div class  main-content  gt        main content        lt span style  clear  both  gt          main content that uses  lt code gt clear  both lt  code gt         lt  span gt       lt  div gt     lt  div gt   lt  div gt    And now the CSS      Should contain all floated and non-floated content  so it needs to    establish a new block formatting context without using overflow  hidden       container     display  inline-block    width  100     zoom  1     new block formatting context via hasLayout for IE 6 7          Fixed-width floated sidebar      sidebar     float  left    width  160px        Needs to make space for the sidebar      main     margin-left  160px        Establishes a new block formatting context to insulate descendants from    the floating sidebar      main-content     display  inline-block    width  100     zoom  1     new block formatting context via hasLayout for IE 6 7        Try it yourself  Go to JS Bin to play around with the code and see how this solution is built from the ground up   Traditional clearfix methods considered harmful  The problem with the traditional clearfix solutions is that they use two different rendering concepts to achieve the same goal for IE and everyone else  In IE they use hasLayout to establish a new block formatting context  but for everyone else they use generated boxes   after  with clear  both  which does not establish a new block formatting context  This means things won t behave the same in all situations  For an explanation of why this is bad  see Everything you Know about Clearfix is Wrong

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