Title: adding float:left messes up footer
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# adding float:left messes up footer

 *  Resolved [jeston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeston/)
 * (@jeston)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-floatleft-messes-up-footer/)
 * `http://www.soddotest.org/?page_id=74`
 * I’m working on this page currently. I want to move the 3 boxes side-by-side so
   I tried adding float:left to the css and well, it works but for some reason unbeknownst
   to me the footer hugely enlarges and takes up all the page, covering the boxes.
 * is there either a way to stop the footer doing that or a better way to align 
   the boxes side-by-side?

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-floatleft-messes-up-footer/#post-3612988)
 * I can’t see your boxes aligned aside one another, nor the footer issue. Does 
   it occur on a particular browser and browser version?
 *  Thread Starter [jeston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeston/)
 * (@jeston)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-floatleft-messes-up-footer/#post-3613004)
 * sorry, i took out float:left because it was messing up.
 * if you add float:left via firebug or whatever, you can see the problem!
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-floatleft-messes-up-footer/#post-3613006)
 * I suspect that’s because you haven’t cleared your footer?
 * When you use float, other subsequent elements tend to be effected and start floating
   too.
 * You need to clear those elements
    [http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_clear.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_clear.asp)
 *  Thread Starter [jeston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeston/)
 * (@jeston)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-floatleft-messes-up-footer/#post-3613008)
 * Yes! knew it would be something simple
 * thanks very much.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-floatleft-messes-up-footer/#post-3613008)
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