Question

I’m trying to get one div to float left, and one div to float right, but have a form in between, the form has 2 select elements(drop down boxes) in it.

I can get it so I have:

Div<————->Text<————->Div

but not

Div<————->Form<————->Div

If I just have an empty form element than it works like the text, but as soon as I put the 2 selects in then the right div drops down a line, the same happens if I put a textbox(input, type text) in place of the 2 selects.

This is the code I have so far (Note I’m not using stylesheet for the moment, but I will eventually)

<div class="nav" style="text-align:center;">

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<form method="get" action="" id="form1">

<select id="months" name="month" onchange="javascript:document.getElementById('form1').submit();">
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="2">February</option>
<option value="3">March</option>
<option value="4">April</option>
<option value="5">May</option>
<option value="6">June</option>
<option value="7">July</option>
<option value="8" selected="selected">August</option>
<option value="9">September</option>
<option value="10">October</option>
<option value="11">November</option>
<option value="12">December</option>
</select>

<select id="year" name="yr" onchange="javascript:document.getElementById('form1').submit();">
<option value="2005">2005</option>
<option value="2006">2006</option>
<option value="2007">2007</option>
<option value="2008">2008</option>
<option value="2009">2009</option>
<option value="2010" selected="selected">2010</option>
<option value="2011">2011</option>
<option value="2012">2012</option>
<option value="2013">2013</option>
<option value="2014">2014</option>
</select>

</form>

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Answer 1

I had to ditch the floating, as none of the answers really worked (don’t want to set widths, jdc0589’s answers didn’t float the divs left and right, and when I did it broke, and floating the form left obviously made it not in the center) so I had to use absolute positioning:

<div class="nav" style="text-align:center;  position:relative;">

<div style="display:inline; position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; min-width:105px;" class="prev"><a href="/index.php?m=7" rel="nofollow">« July</a></div>

<form method="get" action=""  id="form1">

<select style="" id="months" name="month" onchange="javascript:document.getElementById('form1').submit();">
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="2">February</option>
<option value="3">March</option>
<option value="4">April</option>
<option value="5">May</option>
<option value="6">June</option>
<option value="7">July</option>
<option value="8" selected="selected">August</option>
<option value="9">September</option>
<option value="10">October</option>
<option value="11">November</option>
<option value="12">December</option>
</select>

<select style="" id="year" name="yr" onchange="javascript:document.getElementById('form1').submit();">
<option value="2005">2005</option>
<option value="2006">2006</option>
<option value="2007">2007</option>
<option value="2008">2008</option>
<option value="2009">2009</option>
<option value="2010" selected="selected">2010</option>
<option value="2011">2011</option>
<option value="2012">2012</option>
<option value="2013">2013</option>
<option value="2014">2014</option>
</select>

</form>

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