Text wrap describes the behavior of text flow adjacent to floated elements. See CSS Text Wrap Tutorial.
Reducing the left or right margins of a text column to accommodate an irregularly shaped photograph or pull-quote placed next to the column or extending from an adjacent column aka Runaround.
A text formatting term: The ability to wrap text around graphic images on a page layout. Some desktop publishing systems have an automatic text wrap feature that will shorten lines of text when a graphic image is encountered. In other systems, you need to change the length of lines by changing the column margins or by inserting hard carriage returns to shorten the lines.
A page layout term that refers to the way text can be wrapped around the edges of an image or shape. Sometimes called runaround.
the technique of flowing text around graphic elements. In PageMaker, the options are available under the Element menu.
Alternate term for word wrap. See Word Wrap.
show HIDE A column of text that flows around a photo, quote, graphic, or art.
in keyboarding text: automatic placement of a word on the following line when the entire word will not fit on the current line. In graphics: the PageMaker command for flowing text around a graphic, jumping over it, flowing through it, or jumping to the next column.
A line of text that is wrapped around a graphic in PageMaker and called a runaround in QuarkXPress.
The spatial relationship between blocks of text and graphics, or between two blocks of text. A text wrap may be rectangular (most commonly), irregular, or arbitrary. See Standoff.
After aligning a graphic, text wrap allows the text to "flow into" the available space, thus "wrapping" around the image.
A feature whereby text flows round a graphic object. Wrap can be set off, so text flows over the object, square, so that it forms a rectangular frame, or set to follow the contours of the object.