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@@ -8,3 +8,28 @@ for `.pagedate, .pagelicense, .pagecopyright`.
 
 I can override this in `local.css`, but what was the original reason for
 adding this `clear: both`?
+
+> Without investigating in detail, I think it was probably because any
+> of the items can be enabled or disabled. So any of them might be the
+> first item after the horizontal rule, and any might be the last item
+> before the modification date. So all of them have to clear both above and
+> below. I'm sure there are better ways for the CSS to handle that.
+> --[[Joey]] 
+
+>> There is indeed a better way - all the optional things below the
+>> content are wrapped in `<div id="footer">`, so to have the browser wait
+>> until all floating boxes have finished before rendering the footer, it
+>> would be sufficient to have `#footer { clear: both; }` and remove all
+>> the other footer-related `clear` attributes. I'm not sure what you mean
+>> by "clear above and below" - the clear attribute takes values none, left,
+>> right or both, and its purpose is to stop floating boxes (sidebars,
+>> mainly) from overlapping with footers.
+>>
+>> ... oh, I see what you mean - this affects inlines too. In inlinepage.tmpl
+>> we could wrap the "pseudo-footer" in `<div class="inlinefooter">` too?
+>> Then sites could choose whether to set clear:both on the inlinefooter
+>> or not, and this would be separate from the same styling on whole pages.
+>>
+>> [[done]] --[[smcv]]
+
+[[patch]]