Floating div tags - won't align

Hi there,
I am trying to align 2 div tags next to one another in the latest version of dreamweaver cc. At the moment I have one floating to the left 60% wide and on the the right 40% wide. The second div tag sits on the next line down to the right but I can't seem to get them the sit directly next to one another. Please help Thank you

Copy & paste this code into a new, blank document. SaveAs test.html and preview in browsers.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>HTML5 Document</title>

<style>
    -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
    box-sizing: border-box;
body {
    padding: 0;
    width: 90%; /**adjust width as required**/
    margin: 0 auto; /**this is centered**/
    background: #F5DD83;
    color: #2294AE;
    font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;
    font-size: 100%;
    box-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #333;
header {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0 1%;
    width: 100%;
    background: #B00202;
    color: #FFF;
header h1, header h2 {
    display: inline;
    color: #F5DD83;
    padding: 0 3%;
section {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    background: #FFF;
    overflow: hidden; /**float containment**/
article {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0 2%;
    float: left;
article.left { width: 60%; }
article.right {
    border-left: 1px solid #366;
    width: 40%;
footer {
    background: #B00202;
    clear: left;
    display: block;
    padding: 2%;
    color: #FFF;
</style>
</head>
<body>

<header>
<h1>Sitename</h1>
<h2>Some pithy slogan...</h2>
<nav>Horizontal menu goes here...</nav>
</header>

<section>
<article class="left"> <h3>Article Left 60% wide</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi!
Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. Vestibulum luctus mauris sed sem dapibus luctus. </p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi!
Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. Vestibulum luctus mauris sed sem dapibus luctus. </p>

</article>

<article class="right"> <h3>Article Right 40% wide</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi!
Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. Vestibulum luctus mauris sed sem dapibus luctus. </p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi!
Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. Vestibulum luctus mauris sed sem dapibus luctus. </p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi! Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. Vestibulum luctus mauris sed sem dapibus luctus. </p>
</article>

<footer> <small>© 2014 Your Site Name. All rights reserved</small> </footer>
</section>
</body>
</html>
Nancy O.

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          margin-left: 1000px;
          float: right;
<body>
<div id="box_one">Content for id "box_one</div>
<div id="box_two">Content for id "box_two</div>
<div id="box_three">Content for id "box_three" Goes Here</div>
</body>
</html>

No need to get complex, just float all of the <divs> left and give 'box_two' and 'box_three' a margin-left: 50px; (see below)
#box_one {
float: left;
background-color: #9C9;
width: 400px;
height: 400px;
#box_two {
float: left;
background-color: #99F;
height: 400px;
width: 400px;
margin-left: 50px;
#box_three {
float: left;
background-color: #06F;
height: 400px;
width: 400px;
margin-left: 50px;

{module_cataloguelistdump} won't fit inside sidebar div tag

How to make {module_cataloguelistdump}
fit inside sidebar div tag
Module does not move to left margin inside the div tag.
see html below - see screen shot below.
<!— SIDE BAR -->
    <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-lg-3 pull-left sidebar">

    <div class="section module-list-items">
    <h4 class="section-title">Categories</h4>
{module_cataloguelistdump,-1,1,_self,Weight}
</div>

</div>

Hey there,
View the CSS on it and view the html on it. It is pretty straight forward if you inspect markup and then change the CSS to suit.
With those catalog names though your space does not look big enough for them so most of them will instantly be on two lines no matter what you do. So consider that as well.

Newbie Div tag frustration

hi,
I'm working on a music website (
http://moronica.net) and first
created a flash header and animated menu which I then imported into
a draw AP div tag situated on the top of the page in dw (aligns
perfectly with all the graphics below - A COMPLETE MIRACLE).
I can center all the html images below so when you widen the
browser window the page continues to center but I can't seem to
figure out how to make the div that the flash menu is sitting in do
the same thing.
Currently my solution is just to keep everything flush left
but that's sorta lame...
any assistance would be most appreciated. I'm pretty decent
with flash but DW...ouch.
thanks!

> isn't the flash plugin installed on 97% of all
computers?
If you believe the Adobe hype it would be, but there are many
companies and
private individuals who do not have it, and either will not
have it or can
not have it. What is that number? It's more than zero.
> I don't mind about those users as well as those with
disabilities
Really? So you will turn those people away? How about search
engine
spiders?
It's simple to center anything. Put it in a fixed width
container with
margin:0 auto. In other words
<div style="width 800px; margin:0 auto;">
<p>this content will be exactly centered in its
container</p>
</div>
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
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> thanks murray for your advice -
>
> isn't the flash plugin installed on 97% of all
computers? since this
> is a
> music site, nothing corporate, I don't mind about those
users as well as
> those
> with disabilities. and there are only going to be about
10 links total on
> my
> site so I mind if I have to manually fix a broken
link...
>
> I just want to center the page and i can do that now but
the flash menu
> won't.
> I know it's because i'm using an AP div tag which allows
me to float the
> area
> over the page and position the flash file perfectly over
the graphics
> below but
> when I use an insert DV tag it only allows me to place
the area above or
> below
> the graphics on the page so it moves everything down or
up.
>
> I'll probably just hire someone but thanks anyway for
your comments - duly
> noted.
>

Why aren't my CSS and div tag boxes displaying the background images I'm plugging in?

I'm using the CSS dialog boxes to places images via the background image option into my dreamweaver site. Everything looks fine in dreamweaver but when I view it any of the browsers, two of the images I've place as div tag background images don't work....the overal background image of the site works, but these don't show up ....
here's my code if it helps to answer
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Main</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-image: url(images/realgrade.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
text-align: center;
html, body {
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
padding-top: 25px;
#wrapper {
width: 930px;
text-align: left;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
position: relative;
background-image: url(file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/jimmymoreira/Unnamed%20Site%204/images/possible%20image. jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
#header {
height: 192px;
width: 237px;
background-image: url(images/logo_fill.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
position: absolute;
left: 35px;
top: -25px;
#mainNav {
background-color: #33F;
height: 200px;
width: 272px;
float: left;
margin-top: 233px;
#maincontent {
height: 600px;
width: 608px;
float: right;
margin-bottom: 45px;
padding-right: 25px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center 270px;
background-image: url(file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/jimmymoreira/Unnamed%20Site%204/images/opaqueMaincontent .png);
#sidebar {
background-color: #F36;
height: 250px;
width: 272px;
clear: left;
float: left;
#footer {
height: 525px;
width: 870px;
clear: both;
padding-top: 45px;
padding-right: 30px;
padding-bottom: 30px;
padding-left: 30px;
background-image: url(images/footer_image.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
margin-top: 45px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
</div>
<div id="mainNav">
<p> </p>
</div>
<div id="maincontent"></div>
<div id="sidebar"></div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
here's what I'm going for
here's what I'm getting in the browser
Please help!

Your image files are pointing to your hard drive, not your server. You have this
background-image: url(file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/jimmymoreira/Unnamed%20Site%204/imag es/opaqueMaincontent.png);
and you should have this
background-image: url(imag es/opaqueMaincontent.png);
Also, is your images file named imag es?
Gary

Ap Div Tag Problem

OK so this is my first wbesite in dreamweaver so and i ran into a problem....i made a AP div tag but i can get it where i want it.....my backrground is center in the website and i put my nav links in a AP div tag so i could then put them in a certain area where i wanted.(i think is the only way i know hjow to do this) Well how can i get them centered left and right in the website but the top and bottom i want to place by hand???? they are where they need to be when i preview it in the browser but in the dreamweaver file they are down and to the right......i had to keep messing with it and previewin it until it showed up where i wanted it to in the browser. Im sure i have a setting worng either in my CSS or html.... Please help!

First rule of web design is to stop thinking like a graphic or print designer. Web pages need to be flexible to perform well on different devices, browsers, user settings, screen and text sizes. And web designers have almost no control over these user-centric variables.
The second rule of web design, you cannot precisely position text or other elements on top of big background image and expect it to stick. It just doesn't work.
http://alt-web.com/Backgrounds.shtml
If your navigation bar requires a background, it should be separate from the page background. You'll need to use solid colors or create image slices for your nav bar in your graphics editor.
Third rule, use default CSS positioning (which is no positioning at all). Align objects with CSS margins, padding and floats.
Basic CSS Layout. (No APDivs used, no animals were harmed)
http://alt-web.com/TEMPLATES/Basic-1-col-fixed.html
Also read this tutorial:
Taking a Fireworks (or Photoshop) comp to a CSS based layout in DW
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/web_standards_layouts_pt1.html
Good luck with your project!
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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