May 25, 2013
div how to make its dimensions exactly as those of the contents
Stark’s Question:
How do I form a div to have the same dimensions as those of the content housed by it , and not any larger ?
The div that I currently has a larger width than that of the three divs that i have placed inside it.How can i get it to fit the inner div’s size?
Here is the link to what i have now :: http://jsfiddle.net/jairajdesai/Fd5hQ/
HTML :
<div id="initial_options">
<div class="option_button" id="option_1">
<big>1</big> <span class="supplementary_text">text goes here</span>
</div>
<div class="option_button" id="option_2">
<big>2</2></big> <span class="supplementary_text">text goes here</span>
</div>
<div class="option_button" id="option_3">
<big>3</big> <span class="supplementary_text">text goes here</span>
</div>
</div>
CSS :
#initial_options {
position:relative;
top:18%;
left:0;
z-index:10;
background-color:#eee;
}
.option_button{
width:20%;
border-radius:none;
}
#option_1{
background-color:#013adf;
}
#option_2{
background-color:#f7fe2e;
}
#option_3{
background-color:#ff0000;
}
Inline element like <span>
wraps around the content and more. Either you can use this or you can set the display property as inline
.
div {
display: inline;
}
However setting to display as inline
will not give you any option to add top/bottom margin and padding. If you want to add that too, you should use inline-block
as the property.
div {
display: inline-block;
}