Why is clear: left also cleared correctly?

I'm struggling to make CSS float for work (in my head).

Take a look at the following example:

<style type="text/css">
    div.container {
        width:500px;
    }
    div.left {
        float:left;
        clear:left;
    }
    div.right {
        float:right;
    }
</style>
<div class="container">
    <div class="left">leftdata 1</div>
    <div class="left">leftdata 2</div>
    <div class="right">rightdata 1</div>
    <div class="right">rightdata 2</div>
    <div class="right">rightdata 3</div>
    <div class="right">rightdata 4</div>
</div>

This will produce the following result:

+ ------------------------------------------------- ------------------- +
| leftdata 1 |
| leftdata 2 rightdata 1 rightdata 2 rightdata 3 rightdata 4 |
| |
+ ------------------------------------------------- ------------------- +

However, I expected this:

+ ------------------------------------------------- ------------------- +
| leftdata 1 rightdata 1 rightdata 2 rightdata 3 rightdata 4 |
| leftdata 2 |
| |
+ ------------------------------------------------- ------------------- +

Why it is clear: left; also clearing right?


My goal:

clear: right; DIV, : right. :

<style type="text/css">
    div.left {float:left;clear:left;}
    div.right {float:right;clear:right;}
</style>
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| leftdata 1                                             rightdata 1 |
| leftdata 2                                             rightdata 2 |
|                                                        rightdata 3 |
|                                                        rightdata 4 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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<style type="text/css">
    div.left {float:left;}
    div.right {float:right;}
    br.clear{clear:both;}
</style>

<div class="container">
    <div class="left">
         <div> data 1 </div>
         <div> data 2 </div>
         <div> data 3 </div>
    </div>
    <div class="right">
         <div> right data 1 </div>
         <div> right data 2 </div>
         <div> right data 3 </div>
    </div>
    <br class="clear" />
</div>
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divdata-divs , . , .

- :

<style type="text/css">
  div.left {
    float: left;
  }

  div.right {
    float: right;

  }
  div.container {
    width:500px;
    overflow: auto; /* to make sure .container expands vertically */
  }

<div class="container">
  <div class="left">
    <div>leftdata 1</div>
    <div>leftdata 2</div>
  </div>
  <div class="right">
    <div>rightdata 1</div>
    <div>rightdata 2</div>
    <div>rightdata 3</div>
    <div>rightdata 4</div>
  </div>
</div>
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CSS, - , , floated div. "lt; div" class= "right" > FIRST ( , ) .

: , - css clear. ? . , : currrent, .

overflow: auto;

, :


<style type="text/css">
    div.container {
        width:500px;
        overflow:auto;
    }
    div.left {
        float:left;
    }
    div.right {
        float:right;
    }
</style>
<div class="container">
    <div class="right">rightdata 1</div>
    <div class="left">leftdata 1</div>
    <br>
    <div class="right">rightdata 2</div>
    <div class="left">leftdata 2</div>
    <br>
    <div class="right">rightdata 3</div>
    <br>
    <div class="right">rightdata 4</div>
</div>

: , , , : auto divddata/rightdata, , , div . : auto, div , divs, .

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, - - :

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|+------------+                                       +-------------+|
|| leftdata 1 |                                       | rightdata 1 ||
|| leftdata 2 |                                       | rightdata 2 ||
|+------------+                                       | rightdata 3 ||
|                                                     | rightdata 4 ||
|                                                     +-------------+|
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

: , jos misoskian ^^

+1

,

clear:left

. float: left, clear: left . , float: left float: , .

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