I have an element with a 70% width, and it is floating beside an element with 30% width, but when I add 25px
of padding it expands the element and breaks the fo
When you use the border-box
model, the padding is included in the box size. See here for details.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>padding example</title>
<style type="text/css">
.seventy {
display: block;
float: left;
width: 70%;
background-color: red;
}
.thirty {
display: block;
float: left;
width: 30%;
padding: 25px;
box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
background-color: green;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="seventy">Stuff</div>
<div class="thirty">More Stuff</div>
</body>
</html>
I would create another element of the same type (may I guess it's a div?) inside the element and set that one to have a padding/margin of 25px.
For example:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="width30">
</div>
<div id="width70">
<div id="padding25">
Acctual content here.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>