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copied!<p>I am unsure what your ultimate goal is here, but I would suggest enclosing all four <code><div></code>s inside a container element and applying a width to it, then removing the <code>clear</code> style from <code>#divthree</code>. Doing it this way will allow <code>#divthree</code> and <code>#divfour</code> to move below <code>#divone</code> and <code>#divtwo</code> without clearing them:</p> <pre><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" > <head runat="server"> <title>IE Float Test</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> <style type="text/css"> #divone, #divtwo, #divthree, #divfour { width: 100px; height: 100px; color: white; font-size: 3em; float: left; } #divone { background-color: red; } #divtwo { background-color: blue; } #divthree { background-color: green; } #divfour { background-color: purple; } #container { width: 200px; zoom: 1; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="divone">one</div> <div id="divtwo">two</div> <div id="divthree">three</div> <div id="divfour">four</div> </div> </body> </html> </code></pre> <p>The <code>zoom</code> property on <code>#container</code> is necessary to avoid the <a href="http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/escape-floats.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IE6/7 Escaping Floats Bug</a>.</p> <p>If the above solution isn't viable, you can add a <code><br></code> or <code><div></code> after <code>#divtwo</code> with the style <code>clear: left;</code>:</p> <pre><code><div id="divone">one</div> <div id="divtwo">two</div> <br style="clear: left;" /> <div id="divthree">three</div> <div id="divfour">four</div> </code></pre> <p>This is the technique used in <a href="http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/tutorials/quick/floated_layout/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a floated page layout example on westciv.com</a>.</p>

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