I tried to get most of my structure in place. I cannot figure out how to get my 450px wide divs to line up next to each other. I thought they would because they reside within a 900px wide container, but they don't sit next to each other. I'm sure I'm miscalculating the box model dimensions.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Your Name and Lesson Plans</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
background-color:#FFFF66;
text-align:center;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}
h1
{
padding-bottom:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;
}
h2
{
padding-top:0px;
padding-bottom:0px;
margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;
}
ul
{
padding-top:0px;
margin-top:0px;
}
div#container
{
width: 905px;
border:1px solid red;
text-align:left;
margin-left:10px;
}
div#content1
{
width: 450px;
border:1px dotted black;
}
div#content2
{
width: 450px;
border:1px dotted black;
}
div#content3
{
width: 450px;
border:1px dotted black;
}
div#content4
{
width: 450px;
border:1px dotted black;
}
div#content5
{
width: 450px;
border:1px dotted black;
}
div#content6
{
width: 450px;
border:1px dotted black;
}
div#content7
{
width: 900px;
border:3px dashed black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="content1">
<h1>Lesson Plans</h1>
<ul>
<li>Mr. Peery</li>
<li>Tech Lab / Computer Science </li>
<li>Hill Freedman Middle School</li>
<li>Weeks of 10/30/2006 and 11/6/2006</li>
</ul>
<div id="content2">
<p>Blue Ribbon Logo goes here</p>
<div id="content3">
<h1>Objectives</h1>
<ul>
<li>Students will</li>
<li>Students will</li>
<li>Students will</li>
</ul>
<div id="content4">
<h1>Areas of Interaction</h1>
<ul>
<li>Approaches to Learning</li>
</ul>
<div id="content5">
<h1>Essential Questions</h1>
<ul>
<li>ES #1</li>
</ul>
<div id="content6">
<h1>Everyday Materials</h1>
<ul>
<li>paper and pencils</li>
<li>textbooks</li>
</ul>
<div id="content7">
<h1>Learning Activities</h1>
<h2>Monday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Tuesday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Wednesday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Thursday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Friday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Monday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Tuesday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Wednesday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Thursday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Friday</h2>
<ul>
<li>activity 1</li>
<li>activity 2</li>
<li>Homework</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>