Stupid Squidoo CSS Tricks - Side Bars

This is a floating block. It should appear on the left hand side with a light yellow background.

Making a floating side bar is easy enough. You need to enter a <p> tag and fool your browser into thinking it's a box. You figure the width and height and the add the float:left style to it. You can also float right if you like.

The HTML stuff is touchy so copy it exactly. Every quote, colon and semicolon must be in the right place.

Here's the HTML code to make it work:

<p style="background-color:lightyellow;display:block;float: left;width:120px;height:400px;">
contents go here
</p>

I made a list of the color names in my last Stupid Squidoo Tricks where I figured out that Squidoo lets you do this stuff.