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    <p>I expected the two span tags in the following sample to display next to each other, instead they display one below the other. If I set the width of the class span.right to 49% they display next to each other. I am not able to figure out why the right span is pushed down like the right span has some invisible padding/margin which makes it take more than 50%. I am trying to get this done without using html tables. Any ideas?</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;Test Page&lt;/title&gt; &lt;style type='text/css'&gt; * { margin: 0; } html,body{ margin:0; padding:0; height:100%; width:100%; border:none; } div.header{ width:100%; height:80px; vertical-align:top; } span.left { height:80px; width:50%; display:inline-block; background-color:pink; } span.right { vertical-align:top; display:inline-block; text-align:right; height:80px; width:50%; background-color:red; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div class='header'&gt; &lt;span class='left'&gt;Left Span 50% width&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class='right'&gt;Right Span 50% width&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <hr> <p>Thanks for the explanation. The float:left works beautifully with expected results in FF 3.1. Unfortunately, in IE6 the right side span renders 50% of the 50%, in effect giving it a width of 25% of the browser window. Setting its width to 100% achieves the desired results but breaks in FF 3.1 which is in standards compliance mode and I understand that. Getting it to work both in FF and IE 6, without resorting to hacks or using multiple CSS sheets has been a challenge</p>
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