Floating around table
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title> Doctype Sniffing </title> <style type='text/css' media='all'> table { margin: auto; } td { background: red; margin: 10%; border: 5px solid black; padding: 10%; width: 100%; color: black; font-size: 200%; text-align: center; } div { background: green; border: 5px solid black; font-size: 200%; padding: 1%; } #div1 { float: left; width: 30%; } #div2 { margin-left: 34%; width: auto; } </style> </head> <body> <table> <tr> <td> Some content. </td> </tr> </table> <div id='div1'> This div smells funny. </div> <div id='div2'> This div has a <em>strange</em> and rather pleasing about it. </div> </body> </html>