Float text with DIV
<!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>double margin</title> <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> div#container { margin: 0 20px; background: yellow; width: 300px; font: 16px sans-serif; } div#float { margin-left: 50px; background: rgb(234, 234, 234); float: left; border: 1px solid black; width: 75px; height: 50px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id='container'> <div id='float'> Float text. </div> </div> </body> </html>