How to make a DIV not wrap?

Question

I need to create a container DIV style that contains 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: hidden;
   }
   .slide
   {
      float: left;
   }
</style>
<div class="container">
   <div class="slide">something</div>
   <div class="slide">something</div>
   <div class="slide">something</div>
   <div class="slide">something</div>
</div>

This works in most cases. However, in some special cases, the rendering is incorrect. I found the container DIV change to 3000px width in RTL of IE7; and it turns to be messy.

Is there any other way to make a container DIV not to wrap?

Answer 1

The min-width property does not work correctly in Internet Explorer, which is most likely the cause of your problems.

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Answer 2

overflow: hidden should give you the correct behavior. My guess is that RTL is messed up because you have float: left on the encapsulated divs.

Beside that bug, you got the right behavior.

Answer 3

The following worked for me without floating (I modified your example a little for visual effect):

.container
{
    white-space: nowrap; /*Prevents Wrapping*/
    
    width: 300px;
    height: 120px;
    overflow-x: scroll;
    overflow-y: hidden;
}
.slide
{
    display: inline-block; /*Display inline and maintain block characteristics.*/
    vertical-align: top; /*Makes sure all the divs are correctly aligned.*/
    white-space: normal; /*Prevents child elements from inheriting nowrap.*/
    
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
    background-color: red;
    margin: 5px;
}

<div class="container">
   <div class="slide">something something something</div>
   <div class="slide">something something something</div>
   <div class="slide">something something something</div>
   <div class="slide">something something something</div>
</div>

The divs may be separated by spaces. If you don't want this, use margin-right: -4px; instead of margin: 5px; for .slide (it's ugly but it's a tricky problem to deal with).

Answer 4

None of the above worked for me.

In my case, I needed to add the following to the user control I had created:

display:inline-block;

Answer 5

<div style="height:200px;width:200px;border:; white-space: nowrap;overflow-x: scroll;overflow-y: hidden;">
   <p>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</p>
</div>

Answer 6

Try to use width: 3000px; for the case of IE.