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<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:subLang='en'>
    <head>
        <title>Div Float With Width And Height</title>
<style type='text/css'>
div#container {
    font: 16px arial;
    margin: 0 20px;
    background: pink;
    width: 400px;
}
div#float {
    background: rgb(169, 196, 155);
    float: left;
    border: 1px solid blue;
    width: 120px;
    height: 60px;
}
p {
    margin-left: 80px;
    border: 1px solid red;
}
</style>

    </head>
    <body>
        <div id='container'>
            <div id='float'>
                Float text -  O what a heaven is love! O what a hell! Thomas Dekker
            </div>
            <p>
                Someday, after mastering the winds,<br>
                the waves, the tides and gravity,<br>
                we shall harness for God the energies of love,<br>
                and then, for a second time in the history of the world,<br>
                man will have discovered fire.<br><br>

                Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
            </p>
        </div>
    </body>
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