Use sidebars to improve article readability

Writing an article is often a balancing act between presenting the information you need to convey, and describing other interesting, but non-essential aspects of the topic. In the past when I have found myself in this situation, I have resorted to using html tables to achieve a sidebar. While this works, it is kludgy to set up.

Recently member knockNrod submitted a suggestion for a new CodeProject sidebar css class. This now has been incorporated into the official CodeProject css stylesheet and is available using <div class="sidebar-right"> and <div class="sidebar-left">. I want to thank knockNrod for sharing this great idea.

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