<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>
<title>Test Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 15px;
background-color:white;
font: 90% arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#container {
background-color: black;
width: 600px;
margin:0 auto;
padding: 0 0 0 150px;
border: solid 1px black;
}
#content {
margin: 0;
padding: 60px 0 0 0;
background: transparent url(http://www.charles-reace.com/image/red_bg.png)
repeat-x 0 0;
}
#text {
background-color: white;
width: 290px;
float: right;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
padding: 5px;
}
#image {
background-color: white;
width: 300px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
float:left;
}
#image img { display: block; }
.clear {
clear: both;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 0;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<div id="text">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim
veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea
commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate
velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.</p>
</div><!-- text -->
<div id="image">
<img src="http://www.charles-reace.com/Photos/noggin3.jpg" alt="NogDog"
width="300" height="231">
</div><!-- image -->
</div><!-- content -->
<div class="clear"></div>
</div><!-- container -->
</body>
</html>
See result at http://www.charles-reace.com/test/dysan.html