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How do you make div elements display inline?

Lucas Hayes |

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

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20 Answers

That's something else then:

div.inline { float:left; } .clearBoth { clear:both; }
<div>1<br />2<br />3</div> <div>1<br />2<br />3</div> <div>1<br />2<br />3</div> <br /><!-- you may or may not need this -->
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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...

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Try writing it like this:

div { border: 1px solid #CCC; }
 <div>a</div> <div>b</div> <div>c</div>
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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 as. 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 > <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p> <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p> </div> <div > <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p> <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p> </div> <div > <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

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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> <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.

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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> <div>Box 1</div> <div>Box 1</div> <div>Box 1</div> <div>Box 1</div> <div>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>
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<span> ?

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<style type="text/css"> div.inline { display:inline; } </style> <div>a</div> <div>b</div> <div>c</div>

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 ( 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.

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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

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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> <div>Foo</div> </div> <div> <div>Bar</div> </div> <div> <div>Baz</div> </div>

Note that the divs 'foo' 'bar' and 'baz' are each held within the 'contain' div.

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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 elements that way you are getting an unwanted result. So you can you inline elements like span, small etc.

<span>foo</span><span>bar</span><span>baz</span>
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we can do this like

.left { float:left; margin:3px; } <div>foo</div> <div>bar</div> <div>baz</div> 
<div> <div><p>para 1</p></div> <div> <p>para 1</p> <span>para 2</span> <h1>para 3</h1> </div> <div><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>foo</div><div>bar</div><div>baz</div> //solution 2 <style> #div01, #div02, #div03 { display:inline; padding-left:5px; } </style> <div>foo</div><div>bar</div><div>baz</div> /* I think this would help but if you have any other thoughts just let me knw kk */

This is what worked for me. I was working with bootstrap and I wanted to have radio buttons inline:

 <div> <div> <input type="radio" name="formRadio4" checked=""> <label for="formRadio4"> Radio Outline Warning </label> </div> <div> <input type="radio" name="formRadio4" checked=""> <label for="formRadio4"> Radio Outline Warning </label> </div> </div>

And the CSS:

.form-inline-radio { display: flex; overflow: hidden; } .form-check { margin-right: 10px; }

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".

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