Question

I made a very basic layout.

http://jsfiddle.net/kK7Rk/

HTML

<div id="container">
    <div id="logocontainer">
    </div>
    <div id="navigationcontainer">
    </div>
    <div id="textcontainer">
    </div>
    <div id="sidebarcontainer">
        TEXTTEXTEXTTEXTTEXTEXTTEXTTEXTEXTTEXTTEXTEXTTEXTTEXTEXT.
    </div>
</div>​

CSS

* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#container {
margin:0px auto;
width:600px;
height:1000px;
background:red;
}
#logocontainer {
float:left;
width:50%;
height:15%;
background:green;
}
#navigationcontainer {
float:right;
width:50%;
height:15%;
background:orange;
}
#textcontainer {
margin:10px;
float:left;
width:70%;
height:83.2%;
background:purple;
}
#sidebarcontainer {
margin:10px;
float:right;
width:23.33%;
background:yellow;
}​

The text inside is flowing outside its boundaries even though I set a margin for the div.

Can someone tell me what the problem is?

Thanks,

SenileSage.

Answer 1

Most browsers don’t know how to break words that are so long, you have to give it a bit of help.

Add word-break:break-all; to the #sidebarcontainer. Here is some more info on it on W3Schools.