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float:right not floating all the way to the right

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css

css-float

I've been looking at this for the past days now and I'm at the point where I need to ask for help.

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I need the donate now column to float all the way to the right, but it only goes halfway. I can't figure out why it's stopping there, there's no containing div that ends there. I've tried to take it out of the #center div, and have placed it both before it with no better results. Placing it after the #center div makes it float left all the way beautifully, but below the #center where I don't want it to be.

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Ghassan Avatar asked Apr 07 '11 18:04

Ghassan


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2 Answers

In case others come later:

I had a similar issue where float right would only move halfway across its containing div. Neither it, its siblings, or container had position relative. However, the containing div's prior sibling also had a child with a float: right; (coincidence that it was the last child; not sure?). I solved my problem by adding a clear: both; to the div containing the offending floater. This was on Chrome.

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Gilgeson Avatar answered Nov 19 '22 22:11

Gilgeson


This happened to me because I had set max-width on a parent container. I removed that and my element floated all the way to the right properly.

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Jesse Aldridge Avatar answered Nov 19 '22 22:11

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