Question

My goal is to display two <div>s side-by-side with the content from both <div>s aligned at the top. I do not want long text in the second <div> to wrap underneath the first one.

Finally, I do not want to set the width of the second <div> because I need the markup to work in different widths.

Sample markup is below and at http://jsfiddle.net/rhEyM/.

CSS

.left-div {
    float: left;
    width: 100px;
    height: 20px;
    margin-right: 8px;
    background-color: linen;
}
.right-div {
    float: left;
    margin-left: 108px;
    background-color: skyblue;
}​

HTML

<div class="left-div">
    &nbsp;
</div>
<div class="right-div">
    My requirements are <b>[A]</b> Content in the two divs should line
    up at the top, <b>[B]</b> Long text in right-div should not wrap
    underneath left-div, and <b>[C]</b> I do not want to specify a
    width of right-div. I don't want to set the width of right-div
    because this markup needs to work within different widths.
</div>

​

Answer 1

I removed the float from the second div to make it work.

http://jsfiddle.net/rhEyM/2/