Clear floating & Overflow - CSS challenges

#webdev #beginners #css #learning

You can find all the code in this post at the repo Github.

You can check the visual here:

Clear floating

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge" />
    <title>Clear Float</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="box">Box 1</div>
    <div class="box">Box 2</div>
    <div class="box">Box 3</div>

    <p>This paragraph will wrap around the floated boxes.</p>

    <div class="container clearfix">
      <div class="box">Box A</div>
      <div class="box">Box B</div>
    </div>

    <p>This paragraph will not wrap around the boxes because of clearfix.</p>
  </body>
</html>

.box {
  float: left;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  margin: 10px;
  background-color: lightgreen;
}

.container {
  border: 2px solid black;
  padding: 10px;
}

.clearfix::after {
  content: " ";
  display: block;
  height: 0; /* optional */
  visibility: hidden; /* optional */
  clear: both;
}

Overflow

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge" />
    <title>Overflow</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <p class="one-line-overflow">The content is going to overflow!</p>

    <p class="multiple-lines-overflow">The content is going to overflow!</p>
  </body>
</html>

.one-line-overflow {
  width: 40px;
  height: 20px;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

.multiple-lines-overflow {
  width: 40px;
  height: 20px;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  display: -webkit-box;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
  -webkit-line-clamp: 3;
}