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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6824273/floats-in-ie-compatibility-mode

by tw16

HTML

<div class="container">
    
    <div class="row">
        <div style="color: red">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</div>
    </div>
    
    <div class="row">
        
        <div class="left">
            <div class="col"><span>caption 1</span></div>
            <div class="col"><span><input type="text"/></span></div>
        </div>
        <div class="right">
            <div class="col inner"><span>caption 3</span></div>
            <div class="last inner">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    
    
    <div class="row">
        
        <div class="left">
            <div class="col"><span style="color: purple">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. </span></div>
            <div class="col"><span><input type="text"/></span></div>
        </div>
        <div class="right">
            <div class="col inner"><span>caption 7</span></div>
            <div class="last inner"><span><input type="text"/></span></div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="row">
        <div style="color: green">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</div>
    </div>
    <div class="row">
        <div style="color: blue">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing...

CSS

body{
    background-color: #0000ff;   
}

.col
{
    float: left;
    width: 25%;
    display: inline;
}

.last
{
    float: right;
    width: 25%; 
    display: inline;
}

.right{
    float: right;
    width: 49%; 
    
}


.row{
    
    overflow: auto;
    width:100%;        /* Helps older versions of IE */
    margin: 2px;   
}
.inner{
    position: relative; 
    width: 49%;  
}
.container{
    min-width: 600px;
    
    border: 1px solid #aaa;
    background-color:#fff;
}