Numpty CSS question

[venta]

Apologies for any stupidity of question... me and CSS still don't get on.

I have defined myself two nice <div> elephants elements, each of which will take up about half the screen.

Now I just need to persuade my stylesheet to help me put them next to each other rather than one below the other.

The ideal answer will not involve tables :) Does anyone know what I should be looking at doing?

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

This isn't work stuff: I'm a volunteer, they can't fire me anyway :) You get rid of volunteers by finding someone else willing to do the job, in which case bring them on!

The thing I am floating is, as it happens, a box repeating the last n tweets from a particular twitter account. Accordingly it will change size depending on how verbose[*] I have been of late, so absolute positioning might well not help me here.

[*] In so far as one can do verbosity on twitter.

[chrisvenus]

One thing with floats is you can get unwanted behaviour sometimes when you shrink the screen width such that one float then goes below the other. Never that kind of problem with absolute positionings. :) It depends on exactly how you are playing with their widths and such like. :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

No one ever got fired for choosing floats!

Unless they should have used doubles.

Or a decimal type.