Aligning next to each other, not working

Question

I have a problem with aligment of two li elements inside a div because in the next example

HTML

Answer 1

This is purely to do with the fact that your width specification is more than you've allowed for the child element in relation to it's parent elements:

.menu-left ul li {
    display:inline-block;
    vertical-align: top;
    width: 50%; // should be less than 50%
}

Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/KhLhR/3/