How can I get the outer DIV to stretch horizontally

[donpro]

Hi,

If you look at my test page on: http://www.program-it.ca/test.html and
look at the source, you'll see both the HTML and CSS code. My
question is as follows:

If I either increase the text size or shrink the window, the inner
DIVS start to wrap below each other. What I really want is the outer
DIV to stretch horizontally and the inner DIVS to remain next to each
other on the same row.

Can this be done?

Thanks,
Don

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2008-08-13, donpro wrote:

Hi,

If you look at my test page on: http://www.program-it.ca/test.html and
look at the source, you'll see both the HTML and CSS code. My
question is as follows:

If I either increase the text size or shrink the window, the inner
DIVS start to wrap below each other. What I really want is the outer
DIV to stretch horizontally and the inner DIVS to remain next to each
other on the same row.

I haven't looked at your CSS or HTML in detail, but I would
make two suggestions:

First, fix your code so that it is valid HTML (preferably
4.01 strict) and CSS.

Second, simplify your HTML. You have far too many nested
DIVs.

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[Johannes Koch]

donpro schrieb:

If you look at my test page on: http://www.program-it.ca/test.html and
look at the source, you'll see both the HTML and CSS code.

I haven't looked at the code at all, but ...

My
question is as follows:

If I either increase the text size or shrink the window, the inner
DIVS start to wrap below each other.

.... I assume you are using the float property. The effect you describe
is how a layout using float behaves.

What I really want is the outer
DIV to stretch horizontally and the inner DIVS to remain next to each
other on the same row.

Then don't use float. What you want could be done with the CSS table
rendering model. See the corresponding section in the CSS specification.
But AFAIK it's not implemented in any version of IE yet.

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