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Re: [css-d] align some text to right

Sent by Mark Newhouse on 9 February 2002 00:12


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 17:24:50 -0800
  Michael Collins [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote (in part):
>I accomplished this, with help from Brian Costner, by 
>simply applying the float to the item that goes to the 
>right and moving this before the paragraph that is to 
>stay to the left:
>
><p style="float:right;"><a href="default.html">Return to 
>Home</a></p>
>
><p class="title">Michael Collins</p>
>
>I haven't confirmed for different browsers (other than IE 
>6 on Windows and 5 for Mac OS 9) but does the trick for 
>now.

I wrote up a solution to this problem in an ALA article 
last year:

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/

It's about three fourths of the way down the article. It 
involves some nested DIVs and floated SPANs, but you don't 
have to change the order of your text to fit what you want 
to do...

Best,
--Mark Newhouse
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