CSS Float Property - Need Help Here, for newbie

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cosmicx

New Member
hello gurus,

im just startin out with xhtml/css and im learning through blog reading and forum topics.

right now im having trouble with float property. i want to create a 2 column layout page but my sidebar won't float to the right correctly.

please take a look at my codes

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  <link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,800,600" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=""/>

  <title>Floats</title>
  
  <style type="text/css">
    body {
      font-family: 'Open Sans', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans;

    }
    
    #main-wrapper {
      width: 960px;
      margin: 0 auto;
      background-color: yellow;
      border: 1px solid #ccc; 
    }
    
    #main-content {
	  float: left;
      width: 70%;
      margin: 10px;
      background-color: pink;
      border: 1px solid #ccc;

    }
    
    #sidebar {
	  float: right;
      width: 30%;
      margin: 10px;
      background-color: pink;
      border: 1px solid #ccc;

    }
    
    
  
    p {
      padding: 10px;
    }
  
  
  </style>

 </head>
 <body>
 
  <div id="main-wrapper">
  
    <div id="main-content">
      <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer morbi sed adipiscing id Curabitur. Ornare Vestibulum ac turpis Vestibulum at tempor condimentum Nam ridiculus feugiat. Purus egestas massa elit In ut Nunc a Nulla fermentum eu. At Ut lacus ut et ligula urna tellus iaculis dignissim vel. Ipsum id Nunc pellentesque ut Pellentesque Lorem consequat tempor lorem vel. Quis fermentum massa facilisi mauris.</p>
    </div>
    
    <div id="sidebar">
       <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer morbi sed adipiscing id Curabitur. Ornare Vestibulum ac turpis Vestibulum at tempor condimentum Nam ridiculus feugiat. Purus egestas massa elit In ut Nunc a Nulla fermentum eu. At Ut lacus ut et ligula urna tellus iaculis dignissim vel. Ipsum id Nunc pellentesque ut Pellentesque Lorem consequat tempor lorem vel. Quis fermentum massa facilisi mauris.</p>
    </div>














  </div>
</body>
</html>
 
ronaldroe

ronaldroe

Super Moderator
Staff member
Margins are included in the size of the container, so they're making your columns more than 100% width
 
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