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Am i the only one who still uses good old floats and position? Supported everywhere, keeps markup to the bare minimum and doesn't smell like 1992 <table> based

• SquareWheel 7y ago
  I still use them plenty, but more for specific situations rather than major layout decisions. Both have their warts however. Float can have undesirable behaviour regarding document flow and clearing afterwards. I try to use it just for floating things inside of text. Position is just a bit illogical, really. Especially when playing with absolute. It puts you at the mercy of any parent element that just happens to be position:relative. I try to stay in the document flow whenever possible. I like flexbox a lot. My biggest complaint is simply that it has a ton of rules and have to frequently look them up. It's a lot nicer to work in for 1D interfaces though. Especially in the age of responsive design. I haven't had a chance to really dive into grid yet, but from what I've read it looks really useful for 2D layouts. It means not having to rely on the various column-based CSS frameworks for more complex sites. This will probably be my go-to in the future for main site layouts.
• _the_inflator 7y ago
  Nope, you are doing good. I did floats and positioning for over 10 years and still like it. In my opinion however Flexbox and Grid have a decent advantage when it comes to responsive/fluid layouts. Grid and Flexbox scale by design while floats and position feel static.
• kibwen 7y ago
  > and doesn't smell like 1992 <table> based layouts. Word of advice: don't even think about viewing the source on this very page. :P