How do I get a div to float to the bottom of its container?

Posted by Stephen Martin on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Stephen Martin
Published on 2008-11-23T01:29:04Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 0:42 UTC
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I have floated images and inset boxes at the top of a container using float:right (or left) many times. Recently I hit a need to float a div at the bottom right corner of another div with the normal text wrap that you get with float (text wrapped above and to the left only).

I thought this must be relatively easy even though float has no bottom value but I haven't been able to do it using a number of techniques and searching the web hasn't come up with anything other than using absolute positioning but this doesn't give the correct word wrap behaviour.

I had thought this would be a very common design but apparently it isn't. If nobody has a suggestion I'll have to break my text up into separate boxes and align the div manually but that is rather precarious and I'd hate to have to do it on every page that needs it.

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