Can "div" Elements Be Floated?

Can "div" elements be floated? The answer is yes. If you want to float a "div" block, you can use the "float" CSS property. Here is a tutorial example of floated "div" elements:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
  <title>Floated DIV Elements</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <h4>XHTML Interview Questions</h4>
 <div style="background-color: #884422; width: 450px; 
  padding: 12px">
 <div style="float: left; width: 200px">
  <div style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 4px;
   font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">
   Q: What is the number one advantage of using XHTML?
  </div>
  <div style="background-color: #ffeeff; 
   padding: 4px 4px 4px 20px;">
   A: XHTML documents are well-formed XML documents.
   This allows your documents to be processed by any XML 
   applications.</div>
  </div>
 <div style="float: right; width: 200px">
  <div style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 4px;
   font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">
   Q: What is most difficult part when converting 
   a HTML document into an XHTML document?</div>
  <div style="background-color: #ffeeff; 
   padding: 4px 4px 4px 20px;">
   A: The most difficult part is to make all elements
   are closed. XML documents requires that all elements
   must be closed with closing tags or with the extra "/" 
   at the end of the opening tag.</div>
  </div>
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

If you save the above document as floated_div.html and view it with Internet Explorer, you will see two "div" elements nicely floated as shown below:

⇒ HTML 'span' Tag/Element

⇐ Nested HTML 'div' Elements

⇑ HTML 'div' and 'span' elements

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