I have a layout similar to:
I would like for the div
to only exp
Try to use width: max-content
property to adjust the width of the div by it's content size.
Try this example,
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div.ex1 {
width:500px;
margin: auto;
border: 3px solid #73AD21;
}
div.ex2 {
width: max-content;
margin: auto;
border: 3px solid #73AD21;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="ex1">This div element has width 500px;</div>
<br>
<div class="ex2">Width by content size</div>
</body>
</html>
The solution is to set your div
to display: inline-block
.
A CSS2 compatible solution is to use:
.my-div
{
min-width: 100px;
}
You can also float your div which will force it as small as possible, but you'll need to use a clearfix if anything inside your div is floating:
.my-div
{
float: left;
}
An working demo is here-
.floating-box {
display:-moz-inline-stack;
display: inline-block;
width: fit-content;
height: fit-content;
width: 150px;
height: 75px;
margin: 10px;
border: 3px solid #73AD21;
}
<h2>The Way is using inline-block</h2>
Supporting elements are also added in CSS.
<div>
<div class="floating-box">Floating box</div>
<div class="floating-box">Floating box</div>
<div class="floating-box">Floating box</div>
<div class="floating-box">Floating box</div>
<div class="floating-box">Floating box</div>
<div class="floating-box">Floating box</div>
<div class="floating-box">Floating box</div>
<div class="floating-box">Floating box</div>
</div>
I have solved a similar problem (where I didn't want to use display: inline-block
because the item was centered) by adding a span
tag inside the div
tag, and moving the CSS formatting from the outer div
tag to the new inner span
tag. Just throwing this out there as another alternative idea if display: inline block
isn't a suitable answer for you.
If you have containers breaking lines, after hours looking for a good CSS solution and finding none, I now use jQuery instead:
$('button').click(function(){
$('nav ul').each(function(){
$parent = $(this).parent();
$parent.width( $(this).width() );
});
});
nav {
display: inline-block;
text-align: left; /* doesn't do anything, unlike some might guess */
}
ul {
display: inline;
}
/* needed style */
ul {
padding: 0;
}
body {
width: 420px;
}
/* just style */
body {
background: #ffffd;
margin: 1em auto;
}
button {
display: block;
}
nav {
background: #bbb;
margin: 1rem auto;
padding: 0.5rem;
}
li {
display: inline-block;
width: 40px;
height: 20px;
border: solid thin #777;
margin: 4px;
background: #999;
text-align: center;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button>fix</button>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>3</li>
<li>.</li>
<li>1</li>
<li>4</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>3</li>
<li>.</li>
<li>1</li>
<li>4</li>
<li>1</li>
<li>5</li>
<li>9</li>
<li>2</li>
<li>6</li>
<li>5</li>
<li>3</li>
<li>5</li>
</ul>
</nav>