 <p>What you're describing sounds like the proper behavior for a "p" tag. See <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_p.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. If you don't want the link below it why don't you use a "div" instead of a "p" tag? You should be able to transfer all styles over to the new div.</p> <p>Update: I think the HTML below would do what you are saying. I did the styles inline for simplicity, you'll want to move those to your css file.</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="footer"&gt; &lt;div style="float:left"&gt;bla bla bla bla&lt;/div&gt; &lt;a href="url_here" style="float:right" class="next" title="Next"&gt;Next&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre>