Floats in CSS - Gap/space left on top when floated to the right?

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Published on 2010-01-12T17:29:35Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 22:10 UTC
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This is a little difficult to describe, but basically there is undesired space left by a floated div on my page. Here are pictures describing the problem. The black boxes are divs.

Before floating:

alt text

After floating:

alt text

Desired effect:

alt text

And I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but I also have an empty div with "clear: both" placed immediately after the floated div.

How can I achieve this?

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