“Floating allows block elements to be positioned while text flows around them.”

About Positioning and Floating

Positioning and Floating is how you get your content to go where you want it to go on the page. Absolute positioning allows you to place elements at specific locations on the page using x and y coordinates from the top and left of the page. It seems easy but it's actually kind of tricky. Relative positioning moves elements relative to where they would normally appear on the page. Through the magic of floating, you can create multi-column layouts. Floating allows block elements to be positioned while text flows around them.