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  <title> position play </title>
  
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    #rightward { width:20em; float:right; border: solid 1px red; }
    #wont_position_1 { left:50px; background-color:cyan; }
    #wont_position_2 { left:50px; background-color:magenta; }
    #will_position { position:relative; left:50px; width:20em; background-color:yellow; }
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 <h1>position play</h1>
 
 <div id='rightward'>This 'floats' to the right, on top of other stuff.</div>
 
 <p id="wont_position_1">
 This is some text in a 'p' tag.
 Since this element has display=inline by default.
 you can't position it.  But if I put enough text here,
 you'll see it wrap around the float.  At least, that's
 what it's supposed to do.  Your browser may put it
 on the moon, after all.
 </p>
 
 <div id="wont_position_2">
 This is in a 'div' tag which uses display=block formatting.
 But it won't position, either, because the default position=static
 ignores where the left boundry is set.
 </div>
 
 <div id="will_position">
 Finally, *something* that can be positioned, because
 (a) it has display:block and (b) it doesn't have position:static.
 </div>
 
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