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title: "How To - Responsive Floats"
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created_at: 2026-07-04
updated_at: 2026-07-04
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# [[HOWTO CSS Responsive Floats]]

## 🎯 한 줄 통찰 (One-line insight)
This recipe applies media queries not to WIDTH (the usual target in this cookbook's other layout recipes) but to the `float` DIRECTION itself — two complementary classes (`.float-right-sm` for small screens, `.float-right-lg` for large) each activate at opposite ends of a 768/769px split, showing that media queries can toggle ANY CSS property conditionally, not just sizing. [S1]

## 🧠 핵심 개념 (Core concepts)
- **Conditional `float` via media query** — `@media (max-width: 768px) { .float-right-sm { float: right; } }` and `@media (min-width: 769px) { .float-right-lg { float: right; } }` each apply float only within their respective breakpoint range. [S1]
- **Complementary breakpoints** — `max-width: 768px` and `min-width: 769px` are deliberately adjacent (no gap, no overlap) so exactly one rule is ever active at a given viewport width. [S1]

## 📖 세부 내용 (Details)
- Full example: two separate classes, each with its own media query scoping float:right to a specific screen-width range. [S1]

## ⚖️ 모순 및 업데이트 (Contradictions & updates)
없음 — 신규 레시피, 기존 문서와 모순되는 내용 없음.

## 🛠️ 적용 사례 (Applied in summary)
현재 발견된 실제 적용 사례가 없습니다 — 화면 폭에 따라 float 방향을 다르게 적용하는 최소 예제가 원문에서 제시됨. [S1]

## 💻 코드 패턴 (Code patterns)
Screen-width-conditional float direction (CSS):
```css
@media (max-width: 768px) {
  .float-right-sm { float: right; }
}
@media (min-width: 769px) {
  .float-right-lg { float: right; }
}
```

## ✅ 검증 상태 및 신뢰도
- **상태:** draft
- **검증 단계:** conceptual
- **출처 신뢰도:** B (W3Schools — widely used educational reference)
- **신뢰 점수:** 0.80
- **중복 검사 결과:** 신규 생성 (New discovery)

## 🔗 지식 그래프 (Knowledge Graph)
- **상위/루트:** [[W3Schools HOW TO]]
- **관련 개념:** [[HOWTO CSS Mixed Columns]], [[HOWTO CSS Media Query Breakpoints]]
- **참조 맥락:** CSS Layout & Positioning 섹션.

## 📚 출처 (Sources)
- [S1] W3Schools — How To - Responsive Floats — https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_responsive_floats.asp

## 📝 변경 이력 (Change history)
- 2026-07-04: Initial draft synthesized from the W3Schools "How To - Responsive Floats" recipe (Astra wiki-curation, P-Reinforce v3.1 format).