How do you make div elements display inline?

Steve_21559 0
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Given this HTML:

<div>foo</div><div>bar</div><div>baz</div>

How do you make them display inline like this:

foo bar baz

not like this:

foo
bar
baz

css html
20 Answers

An inline div is a freak of the web & should be beaten until it becomes a span (at least 9 times out of 10)...

<span>foo</span>
<span>bar</span>
<span>baz</span>

...answers the original question...

bochgoch_504500

That's something else then:

div.inline { float:left; }
.clearBoth { clear:both; }
<div class="inline">1<br />2<br />3</div>
<div class="inline">1<br />2<br />3</div>
<div class="inline">1<br />2<br />3</div>
<br class="clearBoth" /><!-- you may or may not need this -->

Darryl_Hein_54410

Try writing it like this:

div { border: 1px solid #CCC; }
    <div style="display: inline">a</div>
    <div style="display: inline">b</div>
    <div style="display: inline">c</div>

user_112380

Having read this question and the answers a couple of times, all I can do is assume that there's been quite a bit of editing going on, and my suspicion is that you've been given the incorrect answer based on not providing enough information. My clue comes from the use of br tag.

Apologies to Darryl. I read class="inline" as style="display: inline". You have the right answer, even if you do use semantically questionable class names ;-)

The miss use of br to provide structural layout rather than for textual layout is far too prevalent for my liking.

If you're wanting to put more than inline elements inside those divs then you should be floating those divs rather than making them inline.

Floated divs:

===== ======= ==   **** ***** ******   +++++ ++++
===== ==== =====   ******** ***** **   ++ +++++++
=== ======== ===   ******* **** ****   
===== ==== =====                       +++++++ ++
====== == ======

Inline divs:

====== ==== ===== ===== == ==== *** ******* ***** ***** 
**** ++++ +++ ++ ++++ ++ +++++++ +++ ++++

If you're after the former, then this is your solution and lose those br tags:

<div style="float: left;" >
  <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
  <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
</div>
<div style="float: left;" >
  <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
  <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
</div>
<div style="float: left;" >
  <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
  <p>block level content or <span>inline content</span>.</p>
</div>

note that the width of these divs is fluid, so feel free to put widths on them if you want to control the behavior.

Thanks, Steve

Steve_Perks_161240
user_400

<span> ?

user_223260 
<style type="text/css">
div.inline { display:inline; }
</style>
<div class="inline">a</div>
<div class="inline">b</div>
<div class="inline">c</div>
Darryl_Hein_54410

I know people say this is a terrible idea, but it can in practice be useful if you want to do something like tile images with comments underneath them. e.g. Picasaweb uses it to display the thumbnails in an album.
See for example/demo http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog/demos/inline_block_quirks.html ( class goog-inline-block ; I abbreviate it to ib here )

/* below is a set of hacks to make inline-block work right on divs in IE. */
html > body .ib { display:inline-block; }
.ib {display:inline-block;position:relative;}
* html .ib { display: inline; }
:first-child + html .ib { display:inline; }

Given that CSS, set your div to class ib, and now it's magically an inline block element.

David_Eison_726700

You need to contain the three divs. Here is an example:

CSS

div.contain
{
  margin:3%;
  border: none;
  height: auto;
  width: auto;
  float: left;
}

div.contain div
{
  display:inline;
  width:200px;
  height:300px;
  padding: 15px;
  margin: auto;
  border:1px solid red;
  background-color:#fffff7;
  -moz-border-radius:25px; /* Firefox */
  border-radius:25px;
}

Note: border-radius attributes are optional and only work in CSS3 compliant browsers.

HTML

<div class="contain">
  <div>Foo</div>
</div>

<div class="contain">
  <div>Bar</div>
</div>

<div class="contain">
  <div>Baz</div>
</div>

Note that the divs 'foo' 'bar' and 'baz' are each held within the 'contain' div.

user_5906780

This is what worked for me. I was working with bootstrap and I wanted to have radio buttons inline:

                <div class="form-group form-inline-radio">
                    <div class="form-check form-radio-outline form-radio-primary mb-3">
                        <input type="radio" name="formRadio4" id="formRadio4" checked="" class="form-check-input">
                        <label for="formRadio4" class="form-check-label"> Radio Outline Warning </label>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-check form-radio-outline form-radio-primary mb-3">
                        <input type="radio" name="formRadio4" id="formRadio4" checked="" class="form-check-input">
                        <label for="formRadio4" class="form-check-label"> Radio Outline Warning </label>
                    </div>
                </div>

And the CSS:

.form-inline-radio {
    display: flex;
    overflow: hidden;
}

.form-check {
    margin-right: 10px;
}
user_140945980

I just tend to make them fixed widths so that they add up to the total width of the page - probably only works if you are using a fixed width page. Also "float".

user_2463410
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