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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
    <head>
        <title>three-pixel jog</title>
        <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
div#container {
    font: 16px sans-serif;
    margin: 0 20px;
    background: yellow;
    width: 300px;
}
div#float {
    background: rgb(234, 234, 234);
    float: left;
    border: 1px solid black;
    width: 75px;
    height: 50px;
}
p {
    margin-left: 86px;
    border: 1px solid black;
}        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id='container'>
            <div id='float'>
                Float text.
            </div>
            <p>
                Paragraph text. Paragraph text. Paragraph text.
            </p>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>