Question

I’m just reading css design pattern of Apache and have an issue about overflowed inline element in a block element.Here is the link

http://www.cssdesignpatterns.com/Chapter%2004%20-%20BOX%20MODELS/Inline%20Box/example.html

You can see that the inline element with class “box” stays in the same line box in chrome but go to the next line in firefox, while the desired behavior is what firefox does.
Can anyone explain for me why there is the difference in firefox and chrome???

Here is the html:

<div class="container">
  <span class="default">BEFORE</span>  
  <span class="box">← Left &nbsp; ↑ Top &nbsp; 
                      Bottom ↓ &nbsp; Right → </span>  
  <span class="default">AFTER</span>  
</div>​

Here is the css

.container {
  border: 1px solid gray;
}

.default {
  line-height: normal;
  width: auto;
  height: auto;
  overflow: visible;
  visibility: visible;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: none;
  background-color: gold;
}

.box {
  line-height: 100px;
  margin-left: 100px;
  margin-right: 100px;
  padding: 20px 120px;
  border-left: 5px solid gray;
  border-right: 5px solid black;
  border-top: 5px solid gray;
  border-bottom: 5px solid black;
  background-color: gold;
  overflow: scroll;
  width: 99999px;
  height: 99999px;
  margin-top: 99999px;
  margin-bottom: 99999px;
}

.default {
  line-height: normal;
  width: auto;
  height: auto;
  overflow: visible;
  visibility: visible;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: none;
  background-color: gold;
}​

Here is the fiddle link

http://jsfiddle.net/GRwUp/

Answer 1

Try giving the container a width and padding:

.container {
    border: 1px solid gray;
    width: 350px;
}

Here is a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GRwUp/1/