adsense and text

[Mike]

How do you put text right next to a rectangle adsense ad. I cannot figure it out.

[Will]

You could either use a table or CSS methods.

Table

[boysbach]

Mike it is one of the features in Xsitepro you can select adsense to go left, in the normal flow or to the right. Apart from that I have no idea but Will is great at giving these hints.

[Will]

The CSS method is the best because you don't get the extra code bloating your page up and you can easily get the text wrapping around the ad. With tables, you'd have to split the text up and place it into the row beneath.

Table method example

CSS method example

View the page source to see what's going on.

By the way, those ads aren't live ads; the publisher ID is 'ca-test' which means that no money exchanges hands if they're clicked on.

A very handy tip if you're checking your own AdSense pages and are a bit trigger happy on the mouse button

[Mike]

Will,

Thanks for the tips. CSS seems the way to go. Tables would be too much of a hassle, takes up too much time, and too much code.

Mike

[Will]

You're welcome. Even better, would be to move the CSS into an external stylesheet as that would then be cached locally by the visitor's web browser and make your pages even leaner.

CSS example with external style sheet

The style sheet used in the page above

[Rosalind Gardner]

Hey Will,

I was wondering how to do that with CSS as well.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Ros