Question

I currently have a setup of divs within a container div, as follows:

<div id="container">  
    <div id="element"> Element 1 content </div>  
    <div id="element"> Element 2 content </div>  
    <div id="element"> Element 3 content </div>  
    <div id="element"> Element 4 content </div>  
</div>

style.css:

.container {
width:200px;
overflow-x:auto;
overflow-y:hidden;
}  

.element {
width:100px;
float:left;
}

Here’s a jsFiddle of the code: http://jsfiddle.net/vZWTc/.

So, I would like each of the elements to line up next to each other (all 4 in one row), but only have the first two visible (container is 200px, each element is 100px, so only 2 are visible at a time), while the user can scroll (horizontally) to the 3rd and 4th elements (as they are less important)

However, with this setup, elements 3 and 4 wrap down to the next line

updating the container class with white-space:nowrap does nothing. That only affects text, not divs apparently.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Use a wrapper div with the total width of the 4 elements, and set the container to hidden overflow, html example…

<div class="container">
  <div class="wrapper">
    <div class="element"> Element 1 content </div>
    <div class="element"> Element 2 content </div>
    <div class="element"> Element 3 content </div>
    <div class="element"> Element 4 content </div>
  </div>
</div>

and for the css

.container { width:200px; overflow-x:auto; overflow-y:hidden; }
.wrapper { width: 400px; }
.element { width:100px; float:left; }