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Can you make floated elements in a div not wrap?

Answer 1

+1 A:

overflow:hidden on the parent container should do the trick.

ScottE 2010-04-01 15:49:39

Really? Funny how CSS works sometimes... i would have never thought of this.

Zoidberg 2010-04-01 15:50:55

overlow:hidden is not enough, you need to set its width to a higher value to allow overflowing. And if you do that in the parent container, it will definitely not fit its original context. See my post.

Venemo 2010-04-01 15:54:06

Answer 2

+1 A:

Could you use "nowrap"? probably just for text mind you

Graeme 2010-04-01 15:49:55

Answer 3

+2 A:

You can do that easily by adding another block element around the floated ones, with high width and overflow set to hidden. Also, you'll need to set overflow:hidden to the original parent container.

Note that if the width of the floated elements exceed the width of the new block element mentioned above, they will wrap again. So I recommend a high value for that.

EDIT: I see you have a div with an ul and some li's inside. So you don't have to add a new element, since the ul is also a block element and it is already there.

Here is your code with some corrections:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title></title>
    <style type="text/css">
        div.aclb {background:#EEF3FA; color:#666; cursor:text; padding:1px; overflow-y:auto; border:#BBC8D9 1px solid; }
        div.aclb:hover {border:#3399FF 1px solid;}
        div.aclb.focus {background:#FFF; border:#3399FF 1px solid;}
        div.aclb ul {padding:0; margin:0; list-style:none; display:table; vertical-align:middle; }
        div.aclb li {float:left; cursor:default; font-family:Arial; padding:0; margin:0; height:18px;} /*Setting Height here is important. Seems li can have a height>18px on some browsers*/
        div.aclb li.block {padding:0px 2px; height:16px; white-space:nowrap; border:solid 1px #BBD8FB; background:#f3f7fd; font-size:11px; line-height:16px;}
        div.aclb li.block:hover {border:solid 1px #5F8BD3; background:#E4ECF8; color:#000;}

        div.aclb input {margin:0; padding:0; height:18px; background:transparent; border:none; color:#666; overflow:hidden; resize:none; font-family:Arial; font-size:13px; outline:none}
        div.aclb input:focus {margin:0; padding:0; height:18px; background:transparent; border:none; color:#22F; overflow:hidden; resize:none; font-family:Arial; font-size:13px; outline:none;}

        div.aclb a.d {cursor:pointer; display:block; color:#6B6B6B; width:13px; height:12px;float:right; margin:1px 0 1px 4px; border:solid 1px transparent; font-family:Verdana; font-size:11px; text-align:center;  line-height:10px;}
        div.aclb a.d:hover { border:solid 1px #7DA2CE; background:#F7FAFD; color:#AD0B0B;}
        div.aclb a.d:active {border:solid 1px #497CBB; background:#BAD8E8; color:#A90909;}
    </style>
</head>
<body>

<div style="width:250px; overflow: hidden;" class="aclb">
    <ul style="width: 1000px; overflow: hidden;">
        <li class="block">
            <a class="d">x</a><span>Item 1</span>
        </li>
        <li class="input">
            <input type="text" style="width:300px" maxlength="30"/>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

</body>

</html>

I hope it will work for you. :)

Venemo 2010-04-01 15:51:25

I updated w/ a more concrete example. It doesn't seem to work for me. The text input goes to the next line when its too wide.

2010-04-01 15:57:05

I updated my answer with some code to help you.

Venemo 2010-04-01 16:05:00

It does. Thank you!

2010-04-01 17:06:44

Answer 4

A:

It seems like you're looking for this sort of behaviour, no?

div.aclb {
    overflow: hidden;
}
div.aclb ul {
    white-space: nowrap;
}
div.aclb li {
    display: inline;
}

ANeves 2010-04-01 16:16:19

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