Question

I have a page with a container width 100% so its the entire width of the screen, i have several DIVs in a grid structure, they all have float: left on them and no set width, just a margin of 10px.

Is there a method, using CSS or jQuery, to have the divs fill the entire width and justify themselves to fit the gaps, so the margin changes depending the screen size.

Answer 1

Check out thirtydot’s answer in this thread for a pure CSS/HTML solution without JavaScript that works in all browsers including IE 6.

Fluid width with equally spaced DIVs

http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/EDp8R/

HTML:

<div id="container">
    <div class="box1"></div>
    <div class="box2"></div>
    <div class="box3"></div>
    <div class="box4"></div>
    <span class="stretch"></span>
</div>​

CSS:

#container {
    border: 2px dashed #444;
    height: 125px;

    text-align: justify;
    -ms-text-justify: distribute-all-lines;
    text-justify: distribute-all-lines;

    /* just for demo */
    min-width: 612px;
}

.box1, .box2, .box3, .box4 {
    width: 150px;
    height: 125px;
    vertical-align: top;
    display: inline-block;
    *display: inline;
    zoom: 1
}
.stretch {
    width: 100%;
    display: inline-block;
    font-size: 0;
    line-height: 0
}

.box1, .box3 {
    background: #ccc
}
.box2, .box4 {
    background: #0ff
}

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