Picture Aligned Left With Text Beside It

[mwdewitt]

I am using WordPress, but this should be a simple HTML fix. Right now, I have an image (here) aligned left and I want a paragraph of text to appear beside it. So, I did some magic and only the first line of text is appearing next to the picture. How do I get the entire paragraph to show next to the image? Also, I was hoping to do some styling, like, making the quotation marks larger to emphasize that it is a quote and have the quoted individual be on a separate line and aligned to the right. Any and all help will be appreciated! Thank you!

[wolfcry911]

you gave it an alignleft class, but don’t have that class in your css (unless I’ve missed something). So, just float it left using that class.

I think you would need to use spans around the quotes to make them larger. As for the author, you could use any method here:
http://html5doctor.com/html5-simplequiz-5-urls-of-commenters/

[mwdewitt]

I did some searching. Like @wolfcry911 said, WordPress placed an alignLeft class, when you can just simply say “align=’left'” instead. Now, I have another question. I wanted to add 14 pixels of margin on the right of the image, so that the text is not touching the image. So, I simply put in “margin=’14px'” but it does nothing. So, I went looking on the interwebs about this and I found something called “hspace” and “vspace.” My only problem is, this applies the same amount on opposite sides of the image and not just one, single side. How do I affect just the right side of the image?

Edit: And for some reason “hspace” and “vspace” will not work. I just tried to apply it the way that this website says to, and nothing happens. Help!

[wolfcry911]

align, hspace, and vspace attributes are all deprecated. just add the .alignleft (poor choice of a name however) class to your css and give it float: left; margin-right: 14px;

[mwdewitt]

That works! Awesome sauce. Thank you. Now I just need to figure out how to give the quote a little more style. Thank you so much, @wolfcry911.

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