How To Prevent Inline-block Divs From Wrapping?

jsFiddle demo I want the divs to: Wrap their content. Stay in their originally associated line, essentially without wrapping. Basically, the tables are stacking below each othe

Solution 1:

Add white-space: nowrap; to your .layout style declaration.

This will do exactly what you need: preventing the divs from wrapping.

Watch the

jsFiddle demo

or run the following snippet full screen and resize it:

.layout {
       white-space : nowrap; /* this does the trick */overflow : hidden; /* this prevents the grey divs from overflowing */vertical-align : top;
     border-radius : 15px;
           display : inline-block;
}

.layoutbacking {
    border-radius : 15px;
       background : #CCCCCC;
          padding : 5px;
           margin : 5px;
}

<divclass="layout"style="background: #222222; width: 100%"><div><divclass="layout layoutbacking"><table><tr><th>header 1</th><th>header 2</th><th>header 3</th><th>header 4</th></tr><tr><td>data 1</td><td>data 2</td><td>data 3</td><td>data 4</td></tr><tr><td>data 1</td><td>data 2</td><td>data 3</td><td>data 4</td></tr><tr><td>data 1</td><td>data 2</td><td>data 3</td><td>data 4</td></tr></table></div><divclass="layout"><divclass="layout layoutbacking"><table><tr><th>header 1</th><th>header 2</th><th>header 3</th><th>header 4</th></tr><tr><td>data 1</td><td>data 2</td><td>data 3</td><td>data 4</td></tr></table></div><br /><divclass="layout layoutbacking"><table><tr><th>header 1</th><th>header 2</th><th>header 3</th><th>header 4</th></tr><tr><td>data 1</td><td>data 2</td><td>data 3</td><td>data 4</td></tr></table></div></div></div><div><divclass="layout layoutbacking"><table><tr><th>header 1</th><th>header 2</th><th>header 3</th><th>header 4</th></tr><tr><td>data 1</td><td>data 2</td><td>data 3</td><td>data 4</td></tr></table></div><divclass="layout layoutbacking"><table><tr><th>header 1</th><th>header 2</th><th>header 3</th><th>header 4</th></tr><tr><td>data 1</td><td>data 2</td><td>data 3</td><td>data 4</td></tr></table></div>

Solution 2:

This will stop text wrapping, and keep it inline

.leftContent { float: left; }
.rightContent { overflow: hidden; }