Wordpress and CSS float

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OK I've run into this before and usually some digging will sort it out but this one seems to have me stumped. I'm setting a float on an image in a post in WP. It is preceded by a h2 tag and followed by a "p" tag.

It's not applying the float. I cut and pasted the code from my editor into WP and it doesn't work in WP. The code is built in an HTML doc and when I open it locally in I.E. it works just fine. So what it the trick to get WP to play nice?


Here is the code in question...

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And here is what I'm getting when I preview the page...
 
  
  #website design #css #float #wordpress  
 
     
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                First try this.  It might just be the spacing:
     
     
     
       
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                Nope, that ain't it.
            
       
         
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                First try this.  It might just be the spacing:
     
    
Personally, I would have used a div tag, though:
     
     
     
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    <div style=”float: right; margin-left: 15px;" />
     
     
     
       
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                dude!!! just use text align right on that image and save yourself the headache. It would have been over in seconds, lol.
            
     
       
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                LOL, well if that works then it also must be a WP thing because it certainly doesn't work in a straight html page.
       
      
Maybe later I'll try it on the WP site and save all the screenshots for show & tell
            
       
         
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                  OK I've run into this before and usually some digging will sort it out but this one seems to have me stumped. I'm setting a float on an image in a post in WP. It is preceded by a h2 tag and followed by a "p" tag. 
  
It's not applying the float. I cut and pasted the code from my editor into WP and it doesn't work in WP. The code is built in an HTML doc and when I open it locally in I.E. it works just fine. So what it the trick to get WP to play nice?
                
     
     
     
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