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Hello!

I'm hoping someone can help with a frustrating problem. I'm trying to get the body text to flow around tables containing an image and a caption. (I decided to use tables in order to prevent the captions from pushing out the margins in cases where it's wider than the image. I also defined div classes depending on where on the page an image will live.)

However, I can't seem to get things to flow properly -- everything just stacks on top of each other. I had some success using SPAN instead of DIV and going without tables, but as soon as I put the tables back in, everything went to pieces.

Any and all suggestions are welcome! Here's the relevant code:

#container { margin-left: 1px; width: 700px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; background-color:#3380CC; }

#content {
margin: 0;
padding:20px;
width: auto;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
overflow: hidden;
}

/* Imgages and captions */

.tl, .tr, .ml, .mr, .tban, .mban img {
border-width:thin;
border-style:solid;
border-color: #cccccc;
padding: 10px;
margin:0;
}

.tl, .tr, .ml, .mr, .tban, .mban table {
font-size:0.75em;
border:0;
width:1%;
padding: 0;
display:inline;
}

.tl {
float:left;
margin: 0 10px 10px 0;
}

.tr {
float:right;
margin: 0 10px 10px 0;
}

.ml {
float:left;
margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;
}

.mr {
float:left;
margin: 10px 0 10px 10px;
}

.tban {
margin: 0 0 0 10px;
}

.mban {
margin: 10px 0 0 10px;
}

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