Moving div tags?

Sorry for all the questions but if I finally understand then
I will stop asking. Here is the html code for my site so far:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
<title>ivoog! - New & used electronics,
apparel, collectibles, sporting goods & more at low
prices.</title>
<style type="text/css">
#ivoog {
margin: 15px auto 0;
body{
width: 950px;
margin: 0px auto;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="ivoog"
style="background-image:url(Top%20111.gif); width:950px;
height:99px"><img src="ivoog.gif" style="width:252px;
height:74px; margin-left:10px; margin-top:11px"></div>
<div id="Search"
style="background-image:url(Search%20Box.gif); width:950px;
height:46px"></div>
<center><p><img src="slogan.gif"
style="width:637px; height:44px;
margin-top:-19px"></p></center>
<div id="Categories" style="background-image:url(LCB.gif);
width:236px; height:621px; margin-top:-13px"></div>
<div id="Quick Help" style="background-image:url(BB.gif);
width:475px; height:140px; margin-top:3px"></div>
<div id="Start Shopping"
style="background-image:url(MSB.gif); width:432px; height:339px;
left: 457px; top: 216px;"></div>
</body>
</html>
I want my "Start Shopping" div tag to be 5px to the right of
the "Categories" div tag. I CANNOT use the position:relative or
margin-top:example or something like that because if you open the
page in IE, and change the width of your browser then the Start
Shopping div tag will stay in the same place while everything else
moves. How can I make it so the tag will be 5px to the right from
Categories? What is the code and where do I put it? Please explain
to me like you would to a person who does not know HTML. Thank you!
Please help! I am TIRED! THANKS!

<div id="ivoog"
style="background-image:url(Top%20111.gif); width:950px;
height:99px"><img src="ivoog.gif" style="width:252px;
height:74px;
margin-left:10px; margin-top:11px"></div>
<div id="Search"
style="background-image:url(Search%20Box.gif);
width:950px; height:46px"></div>
<center><p><img src="slogan.gif"
style="width:637px; height:44px;
margin-top:-19px"></p></center>
<div id="Categories"
style="background-image:url(LCB.gif); width:236px;
height:621px; margin-top:-13px; float:left;border:1px solid
red;"></div>
<div id="Start Shopping"
style="background-image:url(MSB.gif); width:432px;
height:339px; left: 457px; top:
216px;margin-left:5px;border:1px solid
green;"></div>
<div id="Quick Help" style="background-image:url(BB.gif);
width:475px;
height:140px; margin-top:3px;clear:both;"></div>
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> Sorry for all the questions but if I finally understand
then I will stop
> asking. Here is the html code for my site so far:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
> <title>ivoog! - New & used electronics,
apparel, collectibles,
> sporting
> goods & more at low prices.</title>
> <style type="text/css">
> #ivoog {
> margin: 15px auto 0;
> }
> body{
> width: 950px;
> margin: 0px auto;
> }
> </style>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <div id="ivoog"
style="background-image:url(Top%20111.gif); width:950px;
> height:99px"><img src="ivoog.gif"
style="width:252px; height:74px;
> margin-left:10px; margin-top:11px"></div>
> <div id="Search"
style="background-image:url(Search%20Box.gif);
> width:950px;
> height:46px"></div>
> <center><p><img src="slogan.gif"
style="width:637px; height:44px;
> margin-top:-19px"></p></center>
> <div id="Categories"
style="background-image:url(LCB.gif); width:236px;
> height:621px; margin-top:-13px"></div>
> <div id="Quick Help"
style="background-image:url(BB.gif); width:475px;
> height:140px; margin-top:3px"></div>
> <div id="Start Shopping"
style="background-image:url(MSB.gif);
> width:432px;
> height:339px; left: 457px; top: 216px;"></div>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> I want my "Start Shopping" div tag to be 5px to the
right of the
> "Categories"
> div tag. I CANNOT use the position:relative or
margin-top:example or
> something
> like that because if you open the page in IE, and change
the width of your
> browser then the Start Shopping div tag will stay in the
same place while
> everything else moves. How can I make it so the tag will
be 5px to the
> right
> from Categories? What is the code and where do I put it?
Please explain to
> me
> like you would to a person who does not know HTML. Thank
you! Please help!
> I am
> TIRED! THANKS!
>
>
>

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If you want to position 2 divs - one on left and other on right, the float for your left div should say float: left; and for the one on the right the CSS should say float:right;
In your code, I see you want imagewrapper to come on right and textbox to come on left. But your float for BOTH these say right. This is where the issue lies.
You can combine float:left and float:right to achieve side by side divs provided the overall width (container width+padding+margin) of both divs is less than or equal to the width of the wrapper div.
In the OP's example:
#wrapper = 1064+0+0 = 1064px
#textbox + #imagewrapper = 600+70+280+720 = 1670px = float drop

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.

Quick question about div tags

How do you make a div tag only as wide as the content that is
inside of it, rather than the width of the cell that surrounds
it?

<div style="width:200px; float:left">
Would give you a div 200px wide and floated to the left. You
can similarly
float another div to the right of this div etc. When you are
done with a row
of divs, you would want to clear the float so that the next
set of divs
starts with the extreme left as the reference point. To clear
a float you
would use style="clear:both;" or style="clear:left;" etc.
Please do some
reading on all this before you start experimenting else
you'll run into a
multitude of issues.
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> How do you make a div tag only as wide as the content
that is inside of
> it, rather than the width of the cell that surrounds it?

Noob question about DIV tags

Learning DW and CSS so patience is in order .
I've being reading numerous posts here and on the web about avoiding tables for laying out web pages. I can see the advantages in terms of cleaner codes and easiness of updating and changing sites at a later time. So I started learning about DIV tags (although tables is very easy for me) and have practice a few times with fairly good results, love the absolute positioning with it. Having said that, for the love of me, can't find a way of centering horizontally a page designed with DIV tags (due to ignorance), for example, 1 column/three rows page, after defining styles, size and colors I enclosed everything in another DIV tag, wrapper I think is called, but have not found a way of centering it on the page, text-aligment on the DIV tag only centers the text not the DIV itself, how to go about this? Help is appreciated.

love the absolute positioning with it.
Get over it. It's a trojan horse. Absolute positioning is not a general layout method.
To center ANY block (non-absolutely positioned) element, use CSS to give it a width and left/right margins of 'auto'. For example -
<div id="foo">...</div>
That div will be centered with this CSS -
#foo { width:300px; margin:0 auto; }
I think you are on the wrong path already, though. Stick with tables (which you say are very easy for you) UNTIL you a) understand CSS well enough to understand what absolute positioning is and why I say it's bad, and b) understand how to use float, margin, and padding to place things on the page. Then you are ready to move away from tables.

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