No space between adsense block and text... How to Increase the margin?

I have placed a 336 x 280 adsense block in the middle of my homepage and floated it left but my text to the right of it is starting right where the adsense block ends. In other words there is no space between my adsense block and the text coming after it. How do I add a margin or space?

wrap your adsense block around this code

cristianraiber said:

wrap your adsense block around this code

Code:

<div style="float:left;padding: 5px;">

<!-- adsense code goes here -->

</div>

Click to expand...

Thanks for the fast response, works perfect!

Glad I could help

cristianraiber said:

wrap your adsense block around this code

Code:

<div style="float:left;padding: 5px;">

<!-- adsense code goes here -->

</div>

Click to expand...

Hello,

I had the same problem with my google adsense ads... However I just added a padding of 15px between text and the ads. The problem is that my incomes from adsense fall a lot after that change
Does anyone have an idea about the required distance; that should it be? I was thinking to change it to 10px or smaller but I'm not sure if is according to adsense terms as I didn't find anything mentioned about that on T&C :-s
Thanks in advance.