What is the best way to clear the CSS style "float"?

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Published on 2009-01-29T01:32:20Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 15:14 UTC
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I'm pretty accustomed to clearing my floats by using <br style="clear:both"/> but stuff keeps on changing and I am not sure if this is the best practice.

There is a CSS hack (from positioneverything) available that lets you achieve the same result without the clearing div. But... they claim the hack is a little out of date and instead you perhaps should look at this hack. But.. after reading through 700 pages of comments :) it seems there may be some places the latter hack does not work.

I would like to avoid any javascript hacks cause I would like my clearing to work regardless of javascript being enabled.

What is the current best practice for clearing divs in a browser independent way?

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