Span Layout Grid?

I need some help from some html experts here. Ive been working with html for a couple of years now and i still haven't really used this but i need it now. Ok, heres an expample of what I want. Lets say you have a picture to go w/ a paragraph. And lets say you put that in the upper left hand side. What i want the paragraph to do is to be able to write next to the picture and continue to where it can go under the picture as well. Dont tell me to start a new td because a new td will put it next to the image. I did see this case on a site and i looked at the source and it said .....span style : layout grid.....but, i tried it and it never works for me. Can someone help me with this problem?

The easiest way is to just add an align="left" command to your img tag (assuming you want it in the upper left of the text).

<table width="200">
<tr>
<td>
<img align="left" src="blah.img"> This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text.
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Would result in:

This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text. This is text.

dang u guys r smart

yea, i would agree with mbb, sounds like the right thing to do to get it working

istn there also a way like this?
[php]
span this mug to the y axisspan this mug to the x axis
[/php]
this prolly aint what u guys r talking about but oh wells
this is a part i jsut took out from ver of my layout

also, if you had vertical and horizontal spacing to the img tag, you can keep the text a nice distance from the image...so it looks uniform.