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Make the B div a floating element to make it's width adjust to it's children.

<div id="B" style="float:left;">

Guffa 2009-06-03 17:09:30

Hm, good answer... But I want to position those C divs, so they look like they are in the center of div A. If I put float:left to div B, I will not be able to do that.

Goran 2009-06-03 17:32:55

If you want to center the B div it's easily done by setting the left and right margin to auto, but then you need to specify a width for it instead of floating it.

Guffa 2009-06-04 04:23:57

Yes, but if I add width to div B, then I will not be able to automatically resize it when new divs C are added.

Goran 2009-06-04 10:14:04

Answer 2

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It sounds like what you want is the nonexistent float:center attribute. Check this article for a workaround.

Matthew Jones 2009-06-03 18:10:08

Answer 3

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is setting the left/right margin or padding to % an option?

Stephan 2009-08-31 17:37:05

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