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Text wrapping and positioning problem

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2oddSox

1:05 am on Oct 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi folks,

I'm trying to achieve the following effect:

__________________________
¦ text text text text text text¦
¦ text text text text text text¦
¦ text text text text text text¦
¦ text text text text XXXXXXX¦
¦ text text text text XXXXXXX¦
¦ text text text text XXXXXXX¦
¦ text text text text XXXXXXX¦
¦ text text text text XXXXXXX¦
¦ text text text text XXXXXXX¦
¦ text text text text text text¦
¦ text text text text text text¦
¦ text text text text text text¦

...where I get the text to completely wrap around a block positioned on the right hand side of the page, half way down. It looks incredibly simple but I've tried various things (I'm an extreme noob on CSS) but have only managed to get the text and the block to do everything but the above layout. The closest I got was text wrapping below, but a blank space directly above the block. I'm also trying to make it so that the text is read first by the SE's and whatever info is in the block is read after.

Can anyone offer any pointers?

Many thanks.

alias

4:35 pm on Oct 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I am afraid that floating in a block (in HTML appearing after the main container) in the middle of that container is not possible - unless you're willing to use custom spacer divs and stuff like that - there were some articles in #*$! about something alike (search them for 'crosscolumn'). Please correct me if I'm wrong.

2oddSox

12:57 am on Oct 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Alias, many thanks for the response mate. I ended up dividing the main block into two horizontal sections and then just floating the div in the lower section. Not as sexy as I wanted it, but much, much better than I had it before.