Float right shrunk
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title></title> <style type="text/css" media="Screen"> .parent{ width: 800px; height: 800px; background: black; } * .float-right { float: right; background: pink; } * .shrunk { margin: 3px; padding: 1px; background-color: yellow; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="parent" > <p class="float-right shrunk">Float</p> </div> </body> </html>