I looked through the HTML code and I discovered there is a class called 'pull-left'. Using a div tag, with class="pull-left" or "pull-right" the image aligns to the top of the paragraph, and either to the left or the right.
As you can see in this page, I have put a float on the top left and on the top right. Note that you can also do some neat trickery - like in this post, by putting the image for the too damn high guy first, but with class="pull-right", it will be loaded as the preview image, while the drop-cap image on the left will appear first on the page visually.
Code Snippet
The snip below is the code from the first paragraph of this post>:
<div class="pull-right">https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Too-Damn-High.jpg</div><div class="pull-left">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Decorative_Letter_I.jpg</div>just spotted this post https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/proposed-changes-to-steem-economy and noticed that it has a floating image sitting at the head of a paragraph.
I have used it in my signature now also, here is the code from that part:
## *We can't stop here! This is Whale country!*<div class="pull-left">http://s20.postimg.org/igf27v79p/signature_new_small.png</div>
<sub>Loki was born in Australia, now is wandering Amsterdam again after 9 months in Sofia, Bulgaria. IT generalist, physics theorist, futurist and cyber-agorist. Loki's life mission is to establish a secure, distributed layer atop the internet, and enable space migration, preferably while living in a beautiful mountain house somewhere with a good woman, and lots of farm animals and gardens, where he can also go hunting and camping.</sub>
We can't stop here! This is Whale country!
Loki was born in Australia, now is wandering Amsterdam again after 9 months in Sofia, Bulgaria. IT generalist, physics theorist, futurist and cyber-agorist. Loki's life mission is to establish a secure, distributed layer atop the internet, and enable space migration, preferably while living in a beautiful mountain house somewhere with a good woman, and lots of farm animals and gardens, where he can also go hunting and camping.
I'm a thoughtocaster, a conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler. I've flipped more lids than a monkey in a soup kitchen, of the mind. - Xavier, Renegade Angel
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