greg2008

Thanks.

Using firebug to see the DIV, the only thing it does is offer a container around the collective posts, with of course some padding with the append/prepend.

I don’t like the idea of having unused code, but I do understand providing unused hooks could be helpful to some people within a publicly used CMS.

As with any code, I prefer to know a bit more about it before messing with it. Especially in complex setups like WordPress where code is called and defined from various places.
But as I cannot find CSS for it and no-one has stated it’s an integral part of the code I might just rip it out altogether.

Cheers

For anyone reading this, here is my solution

In my theme’s style.css was the following code :
.post .postcontent p

{
	clear: both;
	margin-bottom: 1em;
}

The clear both on the default P (paragraphs) was indeed making the floated text next to the image drop below the image as soon as I inserted a new line (double return).
Spacing is of course needed to allow neat spacing in the text, even next to the image.
I simple commented this line out /* clear: both; */ and now the text still wraps next to the img, but paragraphs don’t break the float.

Use <div style="clear: both;"></div> whenever you want to clear any floated elements.

Weird way of doing it, but there you go. I would have preferred to simply be able to press return as many times as I wanted to instert as many spaces (line breaks) as required, but obviously this doesn’t work in the core php of the software.
Cheers

There must be a simple solution to this.
The whole point of wordpress and similar software is to create blogs, especially in a news style.

So to be able to have an image, then full control over the text next to it is surely one of the most desired features (along with many other things of course).

So why does it seem so hard to make this work?
I simply want an image with text next to it, and to be able to have paragraphs within the wrapped text so it looks neat.

As said, I even tried my own float divs, but just cant get this to work. I would have thought this would be a standard setup thing by default