How To Align A Button Inside A DIV

I'm sure this will be ridiculously simple, but whatever... I'm trying to display a text area with a button to its right, similar to how StackOverflow displays a comment field with

Solution 1:

The reason why it is not adjacent to the textarea is because the div encompassing the text area is too large. If you inspect element on Chrome, you will notice where all the elements are.

I'd suggest you do not put them in separate divs if you want them stuck together.

<style>
    .newComment {
        position: relative;
        width: 475px; 
        background-color: white;
    }
</style>

 <div class='newComment'>
     <textarea style='border:1px solid #888; overflow:auto' rows='3' cols='40'>comments</textarea>
     <input type='submit' value='Add Comment' /> 
 </div>

Solution 2:

You've set the widths of the container divs but you haven't specified the height, so your padding is not taking. I've provided a sample below so you can visually see what is happening...

http://jsfiddle.net/g6JSU/

Below is a possible solution with the button aligned to the vertical center:

http://jsfiddle.net/g6JSU/1/

Solution 3:

try this

.newComment {
  position: relative;
  width:475px; 
  background-color:WHITE;
}


 <div class='newComment'>
   <div style='float:left;width:375px;'>
     <textarea style='border:1px solid #888;overflow:auto' rows='3' cols='40'>comments           </textarea>
   </div> 
   <div style='float:left;width:75px;'> 
     <input style="float: left; margin-top: 20px;" type='submit' value='Add Comment'/> 
   </div>
 </div>