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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:49:01+00:00

<div id="parent"> <div id="child"> content… </div> </div> Is it possible to make #child as

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<div id="parent">
  <div id="child">
    content...
  </div>
</div>

Is it possible to make #child as wide as the content is? Making it wider than #parent, which has a fixed width, if needed.

(in my case content is an unknown text string that I don’t want to line break)

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can set display:inline and white-space:nowrap on your #child, which will give you the results you’re desiring. The container will only be as wide as the content within, and will exceed the width of the parent if necessary.

    Demo: http://jsbin.com/ebuxup/edit#html,live

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