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Asked: May 25, 20262026-05-25T00:02:10+00:00 2026-05-25T00:02:10+00:00

I have a nav bar with dropdown menus, I would like the dropdown menus

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I have a nav bar with dropdown menus, I would like the dropdown menus to stretch to whatever width necessary for the content inside it, but they will only go as wide as their parent element

I’ve read quite a bit on this, and most people suggest setting position:absolute on the dropdown menus. I’ve already done this and it doesn’t effect it

My jsFiddle is here: http://jsfiddle.net/Rqgh6/

Does anyone know how I can get it the dropdowns to go wider than their parent element?

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    2026-05-25T00:02:10+00:00Added an answer on May 25, 2026 at 12:02 am

    You can simply add white-space:nowrap; to the <a> elements:

    .menu ul a {font-size:12px;padding:0 10px;line-height:22px;text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;}
    

    Updated jsFiddle.

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