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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
    <head>
        <title>guillotine</title>
        <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
div#container {
    font: 16px sans-serif;
    border: 1px solid black;
    margin: 0 20px;
    background: yellow;
}

div#float {
    background: gold;
    float: left;
    border: 1px solid black;
    width: 150px;
    height: 150px;
    margin: 5px;
}
ul {
    margin: 10px;
    
    background: pink;
}        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id='container'>
            <div id='float'>
                <p>
                    Float text. 
                <p>
                    This text is chopped off!  This text is chopped off!
                </p>
            </div>
            <ul>
                <li><a href='#'>Content on.</a></li>
                <li><a href='#'>Content on.</a></li>
                <li><a href='#'>Content on.</a></li>
                <li><a href='#'>Content on.</a></li>
                
            </ul>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>