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?

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[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.