Div side by side without float

How can I make div 'left' and 'right' look like columns side by side?

I know I can use float:left on them and that will work... but on step 5 and 6 in here http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast...s/positioning/ the guy says it is possible, I can't get it work though...

Code:

<style>
div.left {
    background:blue;
    height:200px;
    width:300px;
}

div.right{
    background:green;
    height:300px;
    width:100px;
}

.container{
    background:black;
    height:400px;
    width:450px;
}
</style>

<div class="container">
        <div class="left">
            LEFT
        </div>
        <div class="right">
            RIGHT
        </div>
</div>

The usual method when not using floats is to use display: inline-block: http://www.jsfiddle.net/zygnz/1/

.container div {
  display: inline-block;
}

Do note its limitations though: There is a additional space after the first bloc - this is because the two blocks are now essentially inline elements, like a and em, so whitespace between the two counts. This could break your layout and/or not look nice, and I'd prefer not to strip out all whitespaces between characters for the sake of this working.

Floats are also more flexible, in most cases.

A div is a block level element, meaning that will behave as a block, and blocks can't stay side by side without being floated. You can however set them to inline elements with:

display:inline-block;

Give it a try...

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Another way is to place them using:

position:absolute;
left:0;

and/or

position:absolute;
right:0;

Note: For this to work as expected, the wrapper element must have a position:relative; so that the elements with absolute positioning stay relative to their wrapper element.

You can also use CSS3 flexbox layout, which is well supported nowadays.

.container {
    display: flex;
    flex-flow: row nowrap;
    justify-content: space-between;
    background:black;
    height:400px;
    width:450px;
}

.left {
    flex: 0 0 300px;
    background:blue;
    height:200px;
}

.right {
    flex: 0 1 100px;
    background:green;
    height:300px;
}

See Example (with legacy styles for maximum compatiblity) & Learn more about flexbox.

I am currently working on this, and i have already a number of solutions. It is nice to have a high quality site, that i can use also for my convenience. Because if you do not write these things down, you will eventually forget some parts. And i can also recommend writing some basic's down if you are starting any kind of new programming/design.

So if the float functions are causing problems there is a couple of options you can try.

One is modify the div alignment in the div tag it self like so <div class="kosher" align=left> If this does not suit you then there is another option with margin like so.

.leftdiv {
	display: inline-block;
	width: 40%;
	float: left;
}
.rightdiv {
	display: block;
	margin-right: 20px;
	margin-left: 45%;
}

Don't forget to remove the <div align=left>.

Use display:table-cell; for removing space between .Left and .Right

div.left {
    background:blue;
    height:200px;
    width:300px;
}

div.right{
    background:green;
    height:300px;
    width:100px;
}

.container{
    background:black;
    height:400px;
    width:450px;
}

.container > div {
    display: table-cell;
}

<div class="container">
  <div>
    <div class="left">
      LEFT
    </div>
  </div>
  <div>
    <div class="right">
      RIGHT
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

You can try with margin for right div

margin: -200px 0 0 350px;