title: How to prevent floated div from "dropping down"?
body: <p>Ive looked through previous similar questions and none seem to get me the result I need.</p>
  
  <p>This is the layout Im trying to make...</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qNUPK.jpg" alt="layout"></p>
  
  <p>The issue is in the section that says ORIGINS and has the image.</p>
  
  <p>There is one containing div that contains 2 child divs. One child floated left with the text and one floated right with the image.</p>
  
  <p>When you scale the window I want the divs to scale too.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is when you scale the window to a certain point the right child drops below the left child.</p>
  
  <p>I tried making the child's display:inline-block and the container overflow:hidden; white-space:nowrap but then the text in the paragraphs flows outside the whole layout.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  
  &lt;html&gt;
  
  &lt;head&gt;
  
      &lt;style&gt;
  
          body{
              margin: 0;
              padding: 0;
              background-color: yellow;
          }
  
          #container{
              width: 100%;
              background-color: blue;
          }
  
          #main_content_container{
              padding: 0px 20px 40px 20px;
              margin: 0px auto;
              max-width: 1090px;
              background-color: white;
              overflow: auto;
           }
  
           #main_content_left_col{
               width: 65.1%;
               margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
               float: left;
           }
  
           #main_content_right_col{
               width: 33%;
               margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
               float: right;
           }
  
          #history_pic{
              width: 100%;
              margin: 10px auto 0px auto;
          }            
  
          p{
              padding: 0px;
              margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
              font-family: 'Roboto', serif; font-weight: 300;
              color: black;
              font-size: 16px;
              text-align: justify;
  
      &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  
      &lt;div id="container"&gt;
  
          &lt;div id="main_content_container"&gt;
  
              &lt;div id="main_content_left_col"&gt;
  
                  &lt;h1&gt;ORIGINS&lt;/h1&gt;
  
                  &lt;h2&gt;A look at the history of wave sliding&lt;/h2&gt;
  
                  &lt;p&gt;The riding of waves has likely existed since humans began swimming in the ocean. In this sense, bodysurfing is the oldest type of wave-catching. Standing up on what is now called a surfboard is a relatively recent innovation developed by the Polynesians. The influences for modern surfing can be directly traced to the surfers of pre-contact Hawaii.&lt;/p&gt;
  
                  &lt;p&gt;The art of surfing, called he'enalu in the Hawaiian language, was first described in 1769 by Joseph Banks on the HMS Endeavour during the third voyage of Captain James Cook. Surfing was a central part of ancient Polynesian culture and predates European contact. The chief (Ali'i) was the most skilled wave rider in the community with the best board made from the best tree. The ruling class had the best beaches and the best boards, and the commoners were not allowed on the same beaches, but they could gain prestige by their ability to ride the surf on their ratchet boards.&lt;/p&gt;
  
                  &lt;p&gt;The sport was also recorded in print by other European residents and visitors who wrote about and photographed Samoans surfing on planks and single canoe hulls; Samoans referred to surf riding as fa'ase'e or se'egalu. Edward Treager also confirmed Samoan terminology for surfing and surfboards in Samoa. Oral tradition confirms that surfing was also practiced in Tonga, where the late king Taufa'ahau Tupou IV was the foremost Tongan surfer of his time.&lt;/p&gt;
  
              &lt;/div&gt;
  
              &lt;div id="main_content_right_col"&gt;
  
                  &lt;img id="history_pic" src="http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag265/arsinek1/web_development/history_pic_zpsmy5pfaet.jpg" /&gt;
  
              &lt;/div&gt;
  
          &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>