A float is a renderer that is designed to shift all the way to the left side or all the way to the right side of a paragraph. The lines of the paragraph then flow around the floating object avoiding it. You can see an example of a float in this very paragraph. There is a purple box in the upper right hand corner. Note how all of the text in this paragraph is avoiding the float.

A float is a renderer that is designed to shift all the way to the left side or all the way to the right side of a paragraph. The lines of the paragraph then flow around the floating object avoiding it. You can see an example of a float in this very paragraph. There is a purple box in the upper right hand corner. Note how all of the text in this paragraph is avoiding the float.

A float is a renderer that is designed to shift all the way to the left side or all the way to the right side of a paragraph. The lines of the paragraph then flow around the floating object avoiding it. You can see an example of a float in this very paragraph. There is a purple box in the upper right hand corner. Note how all of the text in this paragraph is avoiding the float.

A float is a renderer that is designed to shift all the way to the left side or all the way to the right side of a paragraph. The lines of the paragraph then flow around the floating object avoiding it. You can see an example of a float in this very paragraph. There is a purple box in the upper right hand corner. Note how all of the text in this paragraph is avoiding the float.

A float is a renderer that is designed to shift all the way to the left side or all the way to the right side of a paragraph. The lines of the paragraph then flow around the floating object avoiding it. You can see an example of a float in this very paragraph. There is a purple box in the upper right hand corner. Note how all of the text in this paragraph is avoiding the float.