Combine the style from ID and class
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> * .z { padding: 5px; border: 5px solid black; } #float { width: 150px; height: 50px; } </style> </head> <body> <div>this is a test. <div>this is a test. <div id="float" class="z">Sized Float</div> </div> </div> </body> </html>