The breaks with floating images.

If you use the align parameter with your images, you'll need to master a variant of the break tag in order to control the flow of other elements in your page.

For example, here is a "floating image" with text wrapping around it:

Abstract: Holes in the Net are common: 1404: File Not Found. This project causes the user's 'ground to crumble' and creates a fall past animated creatures, light-bulb jokes, and into caves beneath the World Wide Web. Spelunk!, a shared environment of humor, hysteria, and HTML. It changes the common, short gaps that users regularly face with a fun, fast-paced and scalable community center. An evolving environment designed to make people smile or laugh, connecting in unexpected ways with their peers and colleagues.

But what if I want the text to break before the word Spelunk? This is what a normal break tag gets me:

Abstract: Holes in the Net are common: 1404: File Not Found. This project causes the user's 'ground to crumble' and creates a fall past animated creatures, light-bulb jokes, and into caves beneath the World Wide Web.
Spelunk!, a shared environment of humor, hysteria, and HTML. It changes the common, short gaps that users regularly face with a fun, fast-paced and scalable community center. An evolving environment designed to make people smile or laugh, connecting in unexpected ways with their peers and colleagues.

If I want the second part of the text to escape the image as a margin I have to use the break tag like this: <br clear=left> To tell the browser to "keep breaking" until the left margin is clear of obstacles such as the image. The result is like this:

Abstract: Holes in the Net are common: 1404: File Not Found. This project causes the user's 'ground to crumble' and creates a fall past animated creatures, light-bulb jokes, and into caves beneath the World Wide Web.
Spelunk!, a shared environment of humor, hysteria, and HTML. It changes the common, short gaps that users regularly face with a fun, fast-paced and scalable community center. An evolving environment designed to make people smile or laugh, connecting in unexpected ways with their peers and colleagues.

The break tag also takes the parameters like this: <br clear=right> <br clear=all>

Building Web Sites - ITP Winter 1999 - Mike Cosaboom, Instructor
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