You're a legend - thanks :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tatham Oddie (Fuel Advance) Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2005 1:00 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Width defaulting to 100%?
Kara, Block elements (like <div>) always expand to the full width by default. By the sounds of it you're after an inline element, so either: A) use a <span> instead or B) set display:inline; on the DIV You might find it helpful to read up on the difference between block and inline elements. Thanks, Tatham Oddie Fuel Advance - Ignite Your Idea www.fueladvance.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kara O'Halloran - Eduka Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2005 2:39 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Width defaulting to 100%? Hi guys, I have 2 divs inside a container. 1: a relatively positioned div to contain and position an image 2: another div, absolute position, to contain a submenu. Image on left, menu on right. For some reason, both divs are expanding horizontally to take up all the available space, even when the content inside them is only 20 pixels wide. I'm not specifying any widths because the content is dynamic so I have no way of knowing what the width will be. The only width I have specified is the container width of 60em. Why are they doing this? Shouldn't they only expand horizontally to make room for whatever is contained in them - in this case only a few words? Any help would be appreciated. :) K (ps this happens in both ff and ie.) ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
