The whole float-based layout thing was a hack. Floats make perfect sense if you only ever use them as floats: box-outs to run text around. The fact you could u

The whole float-based layout thing was a hack. Floats make perfect sense if you only ever use them as floats: box-outs to run text around. The fact you could use them to build all sorts of header/column/footer layouts was both very helpful and entirely confusing. It became the default way to use CSS, for good reason. Yet, I always felt it was a shame it wasn’t often described as the hack it was.