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How to make a DIV not wrap ?

This requirement sounds wired, but it is actually requirement. I need to create a container DIV style that containing multiple other DIV's. It is asked that these DIV's wouldn't wrap if the browser window is resized to be narrow. I tried to make it work like below. <style> .container { min-width: 3000px; overflow: hi...

IE6 nowrap and floating problem

This is driving me nuts... <!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"> .cantWrapper { white-space: nowrap; } .cantWrapper .floatedDiv { float...

Making a piece of text non-breaking?

Hello, say I have a piece of text like this Hello I am some text Hello I am some text Hello I am some text Hello I am some text I do not wish to be broken on new lines Consider the above paragraph. I want for the bolded part to not be broken across a new line if possible. As in, I want it to break if it would require a scroll...

Elements with nowrap get stuck to adjacent elements in WebKit

I have a ul list that I display as a horizontal menu. I'd like the content of each li to remain on one line, but the entire li items to jump lines as necessary. Something like: First entry in the menu Second menu entry These words are short, the LI jumps lines, but doesn't wrap Yet anoter] [And more] [Some more] Logically, I'd just pu...

how to prevent divs from overlapping when using no-wrap across table cells

I'm trying to create an events calendar which has a somewhat 'gantt' chart like bar representing the times of an event, along with the time listed. I've uploaded a page showing the problem As you can see, the problem is that in the 3rd cell, the event div is being overlapped by the previous event div which goes outside the boundary of ...

whitespace nowrap css for children but not parent

I have a div with multiple spans inside. The spans contain text that cannot be split over multiple lines so I have set whitespace: nowrap. This does stop the wrapping within each child span correctly but also stop the parent div from wrapping the children so all spans are on a single line that stretches off the page. How do I change thi...

CSS white-space nowrap doesn't increase width?

Hi there, I am reconstructing a dropdown menu similar to a <select> box using div's and jquery. The div containing the dropdown items should have a minimum width, but no maximum width as it should grow along with the widest item in the list (so if i have very long item like '[This is the longest item within the container]', the whole co...