Floats not floating?

What is my fundamental misunderstanding about why the following source code, when viewed as WYSIWYG, Text1 doesn't seem to float left in the editor?

<div style="width: 200px; border:1px solid green;">Text2</div>
<div style="width: 200px; border:1px solid black; float:left;">Text1</div>

Sun, 09/27/2009 - 15:30

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Floats not floating?

Yes, it's floating to the left at the exact point where it's defined. You might want to ask this kind of questions in any CSS forum as it isn't something related to the editor.

<div style="border: 1px solid green; width: 200px;">Text2</div>
<div style="border: 1px solid black; width: 200px; float: left;">Text1</div>
<div style="border: 1px solid black; width: 200px; float: left;">Text1</div>
<div style="border: 1px solid black; width: 200px; float: left;">Text1</div>

Sun, 09/27/2009 - 19:20

bsmither

Joined: 27/09/2009

Posts: 4

A more elaborate DIV test shows the floats happening. Thank you.

I had asked about floating because my test didn't behave as expected. The testing was because of something I don't see on a real implementation of using the editor on an existing web site.

Currently, I have hard-coded each (using include(file)) article of a php-rendered page to have either a single table cell or two table cells. The editor is stripping out the <td> tags. So, I decided to try putting the <td> tags in the php wrapper and not the article, and use floats in the article.