These concerns in combination with the rise of mobile web devices have caused many designers to look elsewhere for web design enabling technology. The recent emergence of "tableless" cascading style sheets (CSS) markup language is one answer that promises much greater flexibility and control, smaller bandwidth requirements and better overall performance.

CSS is great. On somedays I'd go so far as to say it's a lifesaver. But every now and then you'll encounter a CSS issue that will drive you crazy.

In this case we'll talk about two of the more common issues when using the float property to create your layout.

For those of you who're new to CSS, Float is a CSS property that allows you to align your elements, such as DIVs, to create website layouts.