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

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

This tutorial is how I learned how to do floats, and I still refer back to it for complicated situations. Strongly recommended!

Position absolute would be great if all users' windows were the same size, but sadly they aren't -- even less so in this modern age of smartphones and the like. You can end up with a real mess of overlapping content. Sticking to floats means that you can always make sure container sizes fall back to percentages.