Use margin to offset block
<!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' xml:lang='en'>
<head>
<title>three-pixel jog</title>
<style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
div#container {
font: 16px sans-serif;
margin: 0 20px;
background: yellow;
width: 300px;
}
div#float {
background: rgb(234, 234, 234);
float: left;
border: 1px solid black;
width: 75px;
height: 50px;
}
p {
margin-left: 86px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='container'>
<div id='float'>
Float text.
</div>
<p>
Paragraph text. Paragraph text. Paragraph text.
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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