make sure the item you are floating has a width, or it will continue to take up the entire width of the page, leaving no space for anything to "float" next to it. Also img tags are inline items, so if you are floating the img itself and not a block level element (div, p, li, etc), you will need to add display: block; to your css list.

for instance, this is a block level element with a float on it, and an item below it, no float will happen:

This paragraph is below the float

Now watch when I add a width:

This paragraph is below the float

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