How do you make div elements display inline?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/224602
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Given this HTML:
<div>foo</div><div>bar</div><div>baz</div>
How do you make them display inline like this:
foo bar baz
not like this:
foo
bar
baz
Solution
That's something else then:
div.inline { float:left; }
.clearBoth { clear:both; }<div class="inline">1<br />2<br />3</div>
<div class="inline">1<br />2<br />3</div>
<div class="inline">1<br />2<br />3</div>
<br class="clearBoth" /><!-- you may or may not need this -->OTHER TIPS
An inline div is a freak of the web & should be beaten until it becomes a span (at least 9 times out of 10)...
<span>foo</span>
<span>bar</span>
<span>baz</span>
...answers the original question...
Try writing it like this:
div { border: 1px solid #CCC; } <div style="display: inline">a</div>
<div style="display: inline">b</div>
<div style="display: inline">c</div>Having read this question and the answers a couple of times, all I can do is assume that there's been quite a bit of editing going on, and my suspicion is that you've been given the incorrect answer based on not providing enough information. My clue comes from the use of br tag.
Apologies to Darryl. I read class="inline" as style="display: inline". You have the right answer, even if you do use semantically questionable class names ;-)
The miss use of br to provide structural layout rather than for textual layout is far too prevalent for my liking.
If you're wanting to put more than inline elements inside those divs then you should be floating those divs rather than making them inline.
Floated divs:
===== ======= == **** ***** ****** +++++ ++++
===== ==== ===== ******** ***** ** ++ +++++++
=== ======== === ******* **** ****
===== ==== ===== +++++++ ++
====== == ======
Inline divs:
====== ==== ===== ===== == ==== *** ******* ***** *****
**** ++++ +++ ++ ++++ ++ +++++++ +++ ++++
If you're after the former, then this is your solution and lose those br tags:
<div style="float: left;" >
<p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
<p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
</div>
<div style="float: left;" >
<p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
<p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
</div>
<div style="float: left;" >
<p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
<p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
</div>
note that the width of these divs is fluid, so feel free to put widths on them if you want to control the behavior.
Thanks, Steve
Use display:inline-block with a margin and media query for IE6/7:
<html>
<head>
<style>
div { display:inline-block; }
/* IE6-7 */
@media,
{
div { display: inline; margin-right:10px; }
}
</style>
</head>
<div>foo</div>
<div>bar</div>
<div>baz</div>
</html>
You should use
<span>instead of<div>for correct way of inline. because div is a block level element, and your requirement is for inline-block level elements.
Here is html code as per your requirements :
<div class="main-div">
<div>foo</div>
<div>bar</div>
<div>baz</div>`
</div>
You've two way to do this
- using simple
display:inline-block; - or using
float:left;
so you've to change display property display:inline-block; forcefully
Example one
div {
display: inline-block;
}
Example two
div {
float: left;
}
you need to clear float
.main-div:after {
content: "";
clear: both;
display: table;
}
As mentioned, display:inline is probably what you want. Some browsers also support inline-blocks.
Just use a wrapper div with "float: left" and put boxes inside also containing float: left:
CSS:
wrapperline{
width: 300px;
float: left;
height: 60px;
background-color:#CCCCCC;}
.boxinside{
width: 50px;
float: left;
height: 50px;
margin: 5px;
background-color:#9C0;
float:left;}
HTML:
<div class="wrapperline">
<div class="boxinside">Box 1</div>
<div class="boxinside">Box 1</div>
<div class="boxinside">Box 1</div>
<div class="boxinside">Box 1</div>
<div class="boxinside">Box 1</div>
</div>
ok, for me :
<style type="text/css">
div{
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
width:25px;
height:25px;
}
</style>
<div>toto</div>
<div>toto</div>
<div>toto</div>
<span> ?
I would use spans or float the div left. The only problem with floating is that you have to clear the float afterwards or the containing div must have the overflow style set to auto
I know people say this is a terrible idea, but it can in practice be useful if you want to do something like tile images with comments underneath them. e.g. Picasaweb uses it to display the thumbnails in an album.
See for example/demo http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog/demos/inline_block_quirks.html ( class goog-inline-block ; I abbreviate it to ib here )
/* below is a set of hacks to make inline-block work right on divs in IE. */
html > body .ib { display:inline-block; }
.ib {display:inline-block;position:relative;}
* html .ib { display: inline; }
:first-child + html .ib { display:inline; }
Given that CSS, set your div to class ib, and now it's magically an inline block element.
You need to contain the three divs. Here is an example:
CSS
div.contain
{
margin:3%;
border: none;
height: auto;
width: auto;
float: left;
}
div.contain div
{
display:inline;
width:200px;
height:300px;
padding: 15px;
margin: auto;
border:1px solid red;
background-color:#fffff7;
-moz-border-radius:25px; /* Firefox */
border-radius:25px;
}
Note: border-radius attributes are optional and only work in CSS3 compliant browsers.
HTML
<div class="contain">
<div>Foo</div>
</div>
<div class="contain">
<div>Bar</div>
</div>
<div class="contain">
<div>Baz</div>
</div>
Note that the divs 'foo' 'bar' and 'baz' are each held within the 'contain' div.
<style type="text/css">
div.inline { display:inline; }
</style>
<div class="inline">a</div>
<div class="inline">b</div>
<div class="inline">c</div>
I think you can use this way without using any css -
<table>
<tr>
<td>foo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>bar</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>baz</td>
</tr>
</table>
Right now you are using block level element that way you are getting unwanted result. So you can you inline element like span, small etc.
<span>foo</span><span>bar</span><span>baz</span>
we can do this like
.left {
float:left;
margin:3px;
}
<div class="left">foo</div>
<div class="left">bar</div>
<div class="left">baz</div>
<div class="cdiv">
<div class="inline"><p>para 1</p></div>
<div class="inline">
<p>para 1</p>
<span>para 2</span>
<h1>para 3</h1>
</div>
<div class="inline"><p>para 1</p></div>
<div>foo</div><div>bar</div><div>baz</div>
//solution 1
<style>
#div01, #div02, #div03 {
float:left;
width:2%;
}
</style>
<div id="div01">foo</div><div id="div02">bar</div><div id="div03">baz</div>
//solution 2
<style>
#div01, #div02, #div03 {
display:inline;
padding-left:5px;
}
</style>
<div id="div01">foo</div><div id="div02">bar</div><div id="div03">baz</div>
/* I think this would help but if you have any other thoughts just let me knw kk */
I just tend to make them fixed widths so that they add up to the total width of the page - probably only works if you are using a fixed width page. Also "float".
