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<title>Long description of how floats overlap with boxes in normal
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<h1>Long description of how floats overlap with boxes in normal
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<P>This diagram illustrates a floating image that overlaps the borders
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of two paragraphs in normal flow: the paragraph borders are
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clipped by the non-transparent parts of the image.
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<P>There are two paragraphs in normal flow, each surrounded by red
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border. A left-floating image causes the final three lines of the
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upper paragraph to float along its right side. It causes the
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first three lines of the following paragraph to do the same, and
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the remainder of that paragraph flows normally.
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<P>The paragraph borders shine through the margin area of the image
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box. The non-transparent part of the image content area
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<P><a href="../../visuren.html#img-float2p">Return to image.</a>