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Percentages are more flexible because they can scale to the viewport.

  
<!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">
.container{
    width: 800px;
    height: 800px;
    background: pink;
}
* .box {
  float: right;
  overflow: auto;
  visibility: visible;
  width: auto;
  height: 100px;
  margin: 10px;
  padding: 10px;
  background: red;
}

* .small {
    float: left;
    right: 200px;
    width:  50%;
    height: 300px;
    background: yellow;  
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <div class="container"> 
    <div class="small">this is a test. <BR/>this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. </div> 
    <div class="box">this is a test</div> 
  </div> 
</body>
</html>








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