float highlighted dimensions with multiple paragraphs
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title></title> <style type='text/css'> p#floated { float: left; border: 1px solid black; padding: 10px; width: 100px; background: gold; margin: 10px; } p.normal { border: 1px solid black; background: red; } </style> </head> <body> <p id='floated'> This paragraph is floated left. </p> <p class='normal'> The text if this paragraph is beside the floated paragraph. </p> <p class='normal'> The text if this paragraph is beside the floated paragraph. </p> </body> </html>