Posted by William Hughes on 10/28/82 11:17

On Mon, 30 May 2005 12:07:56 +1200, in alt.html "windandwaves"
<winandwaves@coldmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dudettes and Dudes,
>
> Sad as it may be, I am still having trouble with the float business.
>
> If I want to put two divs next to each other and let them slip one under the
> other in no way then how do I do that.
>
> My plan was:
>
> <DIV ID="main">
> <DIV ID="menu" STYLE="float: left;">menu items</DIV>
> <DIV ID="copy" STYLE="float: right;">copy stuff</DIV>
> </DIV>
>
> but it does not seem to work (COPY ends up under MENU - btw I am using HTML
> strict)
>
> what am i doing wrong?
>
> TIA
>
> - Nicolaas

In *.css:

div.menu { float: left; width: 25%; color: #000000; background: #c0c0c0
url(./img/bg-menu.gif) }
div.main { float: right; width: 73% }

Note: I deliberately left a 2% "gutter" for spacing, otherwise the text in
"main" winds up hard against "menu".


In *.htm:

<div class=menu>
<!--#include virtual="./includes/menu.htm"-->
</div>

<div class=main>

PAGE BODY HERE

</div>

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