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Asked: 2026-05-28T19:17:48+00:00

I’m trying to make sense of the CSS float property, and I understand the

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I’m trying to make sense of the CSS float property, and I understand the basic motivation of text flowing around a floated image. My question is this: since inline elements flow around floated elements, even if if those inline elements are children of non-floated block-level elements, can we somehow consider the text inside the paragraph
element to be inline? I’m trying to form a good mental model of what is happening. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    From the CSS spec:

    Any text that is directly contained inside a block container element
    (not inside an inline element) must be treated as an anonymous inline
    element.

    So it’s an inline box generated by a block element as opposed to an inline box generated by an inline element. Anonymous only means that it doesn’t have an associated inline element.

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