How to make a DIV not wrap?

I need to create a container DIV style that contains multiple other DIV's. It is asked that these DIV's wouldn't wrap if the browser window is resized to be narrow.

I tried to make it work like below.

<style>
   .container
   {
      min-width: 3000px;
      overflow: hidden;
   }
   .slide
   {
      float: left;
   }
</style>
<div class="container">
   <div class="slide">something</div>
   <div class="slide">something</div>
   <div class="slide">something</div>
   <div class="slide">something</div>
</div>

This works in most cases. However, in some special cases, the rendering is incorrect. I found the container DIV change to 3000px width in RTL of IE7; and it turns to be messy.

Is there any other way to make a container DIV not to wrap?

Try using white-space: nowrap; in the container style (instead of overflow: hidden;)

If I don't want to define a minimal width because I don't know the amount of elements the only thing that worked to me was:

display: inline-block;
white-space: nowrap;

But only in Chrome and Safari :/

The following worked for me without floating (I modified your example a little for visual effect):

.container
{
    white-space: nowrap; /*Prevents Wrapping*/
    
    width: 300px;
    height: 120px;
    overflow-x: scroll;
    overflow-y: hidden;
}
.slide
{
    display: inline-block; /*Display inline and maintain block characteristics.*/
    vertical-align: top; /*Makes sure all the divs are correctly aligned.*/
    white-space: normal; /*Prevents child elements from inheriting nowrap.*/
    
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
    background-color: red;
    margin: 5px;
}

<div class="container">
   <div class="slide">something something something</div>
   <div class="slide">something something something</div>
   <div class="slide">something something something</div>
   <div class="slide">something something something</div>
</div>

The divs may be separated by spaces. If you don't want this, use margin-right: -4px; instead of margin: 5px; for .slide (it's ugly but it's a tricky problem to deal with).

The combo you need is

white-space: nowrap

on the parent and

display: inline-block; // or inline

on the children

This worked for me:

.container {
  display: inline-flex;
}

.slide {
  float: left;
}

<div class="container">
  <div class="slide">something1</div>
  <div class="slide">something2</div>
  <div class="slide">something3</div>
  <div class="slide">something4</div>
</div>

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

overflow: hidden should give you the correct behavior. My guess is that RTL is messed up because you have float: left on the encapsulated divs.

Beside that bug, you got the right behavior.

Use display:flex and white-space:nowrap

>

p{
  display:flex;
  white-space:nowrap;
  overflow:auto;
}

<h2>Sample Text.</h2>

<p>Some example text that will not wrap..lla et dictum interdum, nisi lorem egestas odio, vitae scelerisque enim ligula venenatis dolor. Maecenas nisl est, ultrices nec congue eget, auctor vitae massa. Fusce luctus vestibulum augue ut aliquet. Mauris ante ligula, facilisis sed ornare eu, lobortis in odio. Praesent convallis urna a lacus interdum ut hendrerit risus congue. Nunc sagittis dictum nisi, sed ullamcorper ipsum d</p>

<h3>Then some other text</h3>

Try to use width: 3000px; for the case of IE.

None of the above worked for me.

In my case, I needed to add the following to the user control I had created:

display:inline-block;

The min-width property does not work correctly in Internet Explorer, which is most likely the cause of your problems.

Read info and a brilliant script that fixes many IE CSS problems.

you can use

display: table;

for your container and therfore avoid the overflow: hidden;. It should do the job if you used it just for warpping purpose.

<div style="height:200px;width:200px;border:; white-space: nowrap;overflow-x: scroll;overflow-y: hidden;">
   <p>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</p>
</div>

The <span> tag is used to group inline-elements in a document.
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