An element (div) enclosed by "border"
An element (div) enclosed by "border"
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Hi everyone,
My "container" div contains various changeable elements such as lists, forms and more within it.
That "container" has a "border" property to confine it's content by a surrounding frame.
I wouldn't like this "frame" to be static, meaning: it shouldn't have a rigid width such as: "100px".
I want its' width to change in accordance with its' content. If the content of that div is 10 px, border's
width should be 10 px etc..
I tried: "width: auto; margin: auto" and recieved the whole display's width as border's width.
Can anyone give me a suggestion of how to create an "elastic" border attribute?
Thanks
My "container" div contains various changeable elements such as lists, forms and more within it.
That "container" has a "border" property to confine it's content by a surrounding frame.
I wouldn't like this "frame" to be static, meaning: it shouldn't have a rigid width such as: "100px".
I want its' width to change in accordance with its' content. If the content of that div is 10 px, border's
width should be 10 px etc..
I tried: "width: auto; margin: auto" and recieved the whole display's width as border's width.
Can anyone give me a suggestion of how to create an "elastic" border attribute?
Thanks
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RE: An element (div) enclosed by "border"
If you want it to not be the entire width of its parent element, you can change its display property to inline-block, and its overflow to auto. and give it a min-width if necessary.
CODE
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <style type="text/css"> div.content { display:inline-block; border:1px solid red; } </style> <body> <div class="content"> Lorem ipsum .... Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum <br>....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum .... Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum <br>....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum .... Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum <br>....Lorem ipsum ....Lorem ipsum .... </div> </body> </html>----------------------------------
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RE: An element (div) enclosed by "border"
The code is a more complicated then as preseneted here so I hoped I could get a solution without having to present it and I got !!
CODE --> display:inline-block;
RE: An element (div) enclosed by "border"
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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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