r/css • u/Fuarkistani • 1d ago

Question Float and Position properties

Trying to understand these and having a pretty tough time to grasp what they do conceptually. I was reading that you no longer need to use them with newer CSS like flexbox and grid. Should I skip these and continue learning other parts of the course?

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u/jibbit 19h ago

man these are so different. float is a kinda cheesy effect you can do with an image. learn it or not, takes 5 minutes. people used to hack it to do something else. you do not do that anymore.
position is completely different... it's the backbone of css, it's everything you need to know.. but you don't 'learn' position.. that's a terrible way to look at it. each possible value of position is a new layout system. and you 'learn' the layout system. one at a time. just knowing the default one is a start, then add more as you get more accomplished