I have a container DIV with a fixed height and width (275x1000px). In this DIV I want to put multiple floating DIVs each with a width of 300px, and have a horizontal (x-axi
The table solution should work very well.
If you don't want to use tables, you can also put all .block divs in another div inside the #container and give that "in-between-div" a fixed - calculated - width using javascript after loading the page.
Of course if you already know how many .blocks you have / if the number is fixed, you can give the "in-between-div" a fixed width using css.
You need an extra div with a large width to contain the blocks, then they will extend wider than the container div and not drop down to a new line.
The HTML:
<div id="container">
<div id="width">
<div class="block">
<!-- contents of block -->
</div>
<div class="block">
<!-- contents of block -->
</div>
<div class="block">
<!-- contents of block -->
</div>
<!-- more blocks here -->
</div>
</div>
The CSS:
#container {
height: 275px;
width: 1000px;
overflow-x: auto;
overflow-y: hidden;
max-height: 275px;
}
#container #width {
width:2000px; /* make this the width you need for x number of blocks */
}
#container div.block {
float: left;
margin: 3px 90px 0 3px;
}
Wrap your floated divs in another div with the wider width.
<div style="width:230px;overflow-x:auto;background-color:#ccc;">
<div style="width:400px">
<div style="height:100px;width:100px;float:left;border:1px solid #000;"></div>
<div style="height:100px;width:100px;float:left;border:1px solid #000;"></div>
<div style="height:100px;width:100px;float:left;border:1px solid #000;"></div>
</div>
</div>
Put the divs you want to scroll in a table like so:
<div style='width:1000;border:2 solid red;overflow-x:auto'>
<table><tr>
<td><div style='width:300;height:200;border:1 solid black'>Cell 1 </div></td>
<td><div style='width:300;height:200;border:1 solid black'>Cell 2 </div></td>
<td><div style='width:300;height:200;border:1 solid black'>Cell 3 </div></td>
<td><div style='width:300;height:200;border:1 solid black'>Cell 4 </div></td>
<td><div style='width:300;height:200;border:1 solid black'>Cell 5 </div></td>
</tr></table>
</div>
Edit: I tried 3 of these suggested solutions - they all work fine in Google Chrome - but the first one (container1) doesn't work in IE (go figure) - so the SPAN solution gets my vote :-) :
<html>
<body>
<style>
div#container1
{
height: 275px;
width: 100%;
overflow: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
border:2 solid red;
}
div#container1 div.block
{
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
display: inline-block;
border: 1 solid black;
}
div#container2
{
height: 275px;
width: 100%;
overflow: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
border:2 solid red;
}
div#container2 span.block
{
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
display: inline-block;
border: 1 solid black;
}
div#container3
{
height: 275px;
width: 100%;
overflow: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
border:2 solid red;
}
div#container3 div.block
{
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
display: inline-block;
border: 1 solid black;
}
</style>
<p>
<div id='container1'>
<div class='block'>Cell 1 </div>
<div class='block'>Cell 2 </div>
<div class='block'>Cell 3 </div>
<div class='block'>Cell 4 </div>
<div class='block'>Cell 5 </div>
</div>
<p>
<div id='container2'>
<span class='block'>Cell 1 </span>
<span class='block'>Cell 2 </span>
<span class='block'>Cell 3 </span>
<span class='block'>Cell 4 </span>
<span class='block'>Cell 5 </span>
</div>
<p>
<div id='container3'>
<table><tr>
<td><div class='block'>Cell 1 </div></td>
<td><div class='block'>Cell 2 </div></td>
<td><div class='block'>Cell 3 </div></td>
<td><div class='block'>Cell 4 </div></td>
<td><div class='block'>Cell 5 </div></td>
</tr></table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Edit 2:
I ran this test page through browsershots.org, to see how different browsers handle it. Conclusion: Browser compatibility sucks. :-)
http://browsershots.org/http://dot-dash-dot.com/files/test_div2.htm
The table solution worked more often - but the span option (which is cleaner) only broke on browsers I've never heard of. :-)
div#container {
height: 275px;
width: 1000px;
overflow: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
}
div#container span.block {
width: 300px;
display: inline-block;
}
The trick here is only elements that behave as inline by default will behave properly when set to inline-block in Internet Explorer, so the inner containers need to be <span> instead of <div>.
#row {
white-space: nowrap; /* important */
overflow: auto;
}
.items {
display: inline-block;
}
<div id="row">
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 1" />
</div>
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 2" />
</div>
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 3" />
</div>
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 4" />
</div>
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 5" />
</div>
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 6" />
</div>
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 7" />
</div>
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 8" />
</div>
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 9" />
</div>
<div class="items">
<img src="//placehold.it/200/100" alt="item 10" />
</div>
</div>
The trick here is the "white-space: nowrap" property of the parent which simply tells all it's child elements to continue horizontally and the "display: inline-block" property of it's children. You don't need to add any other property to make this work.
JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/2c4jfetf/