The H3, image and p can all be styled due to their being inside that div:

.outer h3 {
     font-weight: bold;
}
.outer img {
     float: left; margin-right: .5em;
}
.outer p {
     padding: 0.2em 0;
}

-Tim

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM, John <j...@coffeeonmars.com> wrote:

> On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:25 AM, G.Sørtun wrote:
>
>
>  Your example looks like a clear case of "divitis" - meaningless overuse of
>> divs.
>>
>> The following...
>>
>> <div class="outer">
>> <h3>Title</h3>
>> <img src="image_1.jpg">
>> <p>descriptive text</p>
>> </div>
>>
>> ...would be a better and more meaningful source-code, and the use of
>> class="outer" instead of ID is more correct for repeated blocks in same
>> page. No problem with ID on "outer" if you're creating a new page for each
>> such block though.
>>
>>
>
> Heh.."divitus"...I was afraid of that! Well, in your example then, would I
> need to throw a tag around the <img src> tag to indicate image position
> (float, etc) and I guess my <p> would also need that, as I want to control
> where these things sit. Basically, I want to control the space around both
> image and text, plus make my image top-align with that text.
>
> I haven't played around with your suggestion yet, but I am about to..I
> wanted to send off this question right away.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> John
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