Question

I have the content set to 1024px width and aligned to the center. Now I want a banner on the left side. Because the banner can be in different size I have to align the banner to the right side. The banner is wrapped with an anchor. In my example below I used a div instead of an image.

HTML:

<div id="content">
    <div id="banner">
        <a href="#"><div id="background">banner</div></a>
    </div>
    <div id="maincontent">      
        SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
        OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
        MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
        EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
        CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
        OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
        NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
        TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
        EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
        NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
        TTTTTTTTT
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

#content {
  width: 400px;
  margin: 0 auto;    
  background-color: red;
  position: relative;
}

#background {
    width: 20px;
    height: 100px;    
    background-color: blue;
    color: white;
}

#banner{
    position: absolute;
    left: -200px;
    width: 200px;
    height: 100px;
    background-color: yellow;    
    text-align: right;
}

JSFiddle

text-align: right; doesn’t make the trick.

Answer 1

remove width: 20px from #background