You would have seen this at a number of places. There is a blockquote to one side and the content is flowing around it.
Go through the post if you have no idea about how to do it.
The HTML
<p>It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This is our blockquote floated to left with a fixed width<br/>Done using :nth-of-type property</p>
</blockquote>
<p>One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover <strong>strong</strong> it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, <a class="external ext" href="#">link</a> waved about helplessly as he looked. "What's happened to me? " he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls.</p>
<p>It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.</p>
<p>It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This is our blockquote floated to left with a fixed width<br/>Done using :nth-of-type property</p>
</blockquote>
<p>One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover <strong>strong</strong> it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, <a class="external ext" href="#">link</a> waved about helplessly as he looked. "What's happened to me? " he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls.</p>
The CSS
body {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
#header,
#footer {
text-align: center;
}
#header h3:before {
content: "/*-- ";
}
#header h3:after {
content: " --*/";
}
#content {
margin: 1em;
padding: 0.5em;
}
#content p {
overflow: hidden;
}
blockquote {
width: 300px;
margin: 0 0.5em 0;
padding: 0;
border-top: 5px solid orangered;
border-bottom: 5px solid orangered;
}
blockquote:nth-of-type(2n+1) {
float: left;
}
blockquote:nth-of-type(2n) {
float: right;
}
blockquote p {
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 24px;
}
::-webkit-selection {
background: #fff;
color: orangered;
text-shadow : none;
}
/* Firefox */
::-moz-selection {
background: #fff;
color: orangered;
text-shadow : none;
}
/* The Rest of em */
::selection {
background: #fff;
color: orangered;
text-shadow : none;
}