Question

I have the following HTML:

<div id="root">
    <div id="left_side">LEFT</div>
    <div id="center_s">CENTER</div>
    <div id="right_side">RIGHT</div>
</div>

…and CSS:

#root {
    background-color: #eee;
}

#left_side {
    float: left;
}

#center_s {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    width: 65px;
    background-color: #ccc;
}

#right_side {
    float: right;
}

However, I get the following:

The DIV on the right is on a separate line, which is not what I want. How can I make it stay on the same line as the other DIVs?

Note: you can see a live demo and play around with the code here: http://jsfiddle.net/UDb4D/

Answer 1

It’s because your #center_s div expands to the width of the remaining line. If you put #right_side above #center_s in the HTML order, it’ll work fine.

See here:

http://jsfiddle.net/UDb4D/2/