Text Wrapping around an absolute positioned div

Question

I know there are a few questions about similar topics but they mostly amount to floating the div/image. I need to have the image(and div) positioned absolutely (off to the right) but I simply want the text flow around it. It works if I float the div but then I can't position it where I want. As it is the text just flows behind the picture.

    <div class="post">
            <div class="picture">
  <a href="/user/1" title="View user profile."><img src="http://www.neatktp.com/sites/default/files/photos/BlankPortrait.jpg" alt="neatktp&#039;s picture" title="neatktp&#039;s picture"  /></a></div>
      <span class='print-link'></span><p>BlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlah.</p>
<p>BlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlahBlah.</p>
        </div>

Is an example of the HTML

with the CSS being:

    .picture img {
        background: #fff;
        border: 1px #ddd solid;
        padding: 2px;
        float: right;
}

.post .picture {
    display: block;
    height: auto;
    position: absolute;
    right: -10px;
    top: -10px;
    width: auto;
}

.post {
    border: 1px solid #FFF;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #e8ebec;
    padding: 37px 22px 11px;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 4;
}

It's a Drupal theme so none of this code is mine, it's just that it's not fully working when it comes to putting a picture there.

Answer 1

I think the best option is to add an additional div after the float content, but still inside the parent to clear previous styles.

<div class="clear"></div>

And CSS:

.clear
{clear:both;}

Answer 2

Absolute positioning does not let you wrap text. You have to use float and position using margin or padding.

Answer 3

There is an easy fix to this problem. It's using white-space: nowrap;

<div class="position:relative">
 <div style="position: absolute;top: 100%; left:0;">
  <div style="white-space:nowrap; width: 100%;">
    stuff
  </div>
 </div>
</div>

For example I was making a dropdown menu for a navigation so the setup I was using is

<ul class="submenu" style="position:absolute; z-index:99;">
   <li style="width:100%; display:block;">
      <a href="#" style="display: block;width: 100%;white-space: nowrap;">Dropdown link here</a>
   </li>
<ul>

Image Examples

Without Nowrap enabled

With Nowrap enabled

Also if you still can't figure it out check out the dropdowns on bootstrap templates which you can google. Then find out how they work because they are using position absolute and getting the text to take up 100% width without wrapping the text.