Why is (floated) list item going to next line - css

I have
<footer class="meta">
<ul>
<li>3 notes</li>
<li>10 comments</li>
<li>3rd Feb 2011</li>
<li class="tags">
<ul>
<li>Tag name</li>
<li>Tag name</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</footer>
I am wondering why my last tag item goes to the next line
http://jiewmeng.kodingen.com/demos/folio-wip/index.html

You could try to enforce a one-line display, by adding:
li.tags,
li.tags > ul {
white-space: nowrap;
}
As others have pointed out, however, it drops to the next line due to width of the content being greater than the width of the parent element.
Having played around with this, it turns out that, for white-space: no-wrap; to work, you'd also need to use display: inline; (or display: inline-block;) on the li elements.
JS Fiddle demo.

The second tag name doesn't have space to float so it drops to the next line.
If you give the parent li more width it will stay on the same line

It's just overflowing since there's too much content to fit in the parent box. You can very easily check these things if you install firebug in your Firefox browser.

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How do I remove text wrapping for the child elements in a dropdown?
JSFiddle with CSS here: http://jsfiddle.net/6Bqfn/4/
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Shop
<ul class="children">
<li>Longer Title</li>
<li>Short</li>
<li>Short</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
I can't get the ul holding the children elements to resize to the size of the largest child li.
You need to include white-space:nowrap; in your css for the items you wish not to wrap:
ul.children li {
white-space:nowrap;
}
This will force all items to show up on a single line, and since all your widths are set to auto, it'll expand accordingly. I updated your jsFiddle as well.
You might try something like embedding a non-breaking space...
Longer Title

Using Haml with the inline-block spacing gaps

So I read the solutions regarding making the spacing go away when using inline-block as opposed to floats: display: inline-block extra margin and http://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/.
So if you're using haml and want to put the closing tag on the same line as the next opening tag, is there is a solution besides switching to ERB?
(and no, I don't want to mess with a css property of the parent container and have to override that in all the child elements).
This breaks (has spacing between the anchors).
So is it true that in spite of the recommendations to do such layouts using inline-block as opposed to floats, it seems that floats are still the way to go, especially when using haml?
CSS
nav a {
display: inline-block;
padding: 5px;
background: red;
}
HTML
<nav>
One
Two
Three
</nav>
Workaround (css-tricks one):
<ul>
<li>
one</li><li>
two</li><li>
three</li>
</ul>
or
<ul>
<li>one</li
><li>two</li
><li>three</li>
</ul>
another one:
<ul>
<li>one</li><!--
--><li>two</li><!--
--><li>three</li>
</ul>
I found the answer: http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html#whitespace_removal__and_
(this is a super useful article on the topic: http://designshack.net/articles/css/whats-the-deal-with-display-inline-block/)
Here's a codepen to experiment: http://cdpn.io/Bjblr
And this worked:
Here's the html if the anchor text is on the same line (same result, but harder to read source html:

Horizontal list with select box

I am using the <ul><li> list tag within which I have 3 tags like sos:
<ul id="reg-lists" >
<li class="one">
<select>...</select>
</li>
<li class="two">
<select>...</select>
</li>
<li class="three">
<select>...</select>
</li>
</ul>
I have the proper css to make the list horizontal:
#the-form li {
display:inline !important;
list-style-type: none;
padding-right: 10px;
}
I does'nt seem to work though and am not sure why. Horizontal rule seems to apply well until you put the combos. Would appreciate your help. Thanks
It works fine for me -- see this JSFiddle -- the list items are displayed horizontally, at least they are when I look at it in Firefox.
If you're seeing something else in another browser, please let us know.
If this is case, the solution may be to use display:inline-block instead of display:inline.
inline-block is similar to inline, but allows the element to contain block type elements, which are not allowed by the normal display:inline style.
Hope that helps.
You need to give your <ul> a set width which is equal to the width of all the combined <li>'s and then set your <li>'s to float:left;

Firefox CSS nowrap problem

I'm trying to create a horizontal (no line breaks) unordered list of images on my website using code as follows:
<ul class="ImageSet">
<li>
<img src="blah">
</li>
<li>
<img src="blah">
</li>
<li>
<img src="blah">
</li>
</ul>
In my CSS, I'm using the following rules:
.ImageSet { white-space: nowrap; }
.ImageSet li { display: inline; float: left; height: 100% }
This is working properly in Chrome, but not in Firefox, for some reason does anyone know why?
EDIT: To clarify, the problem in FF is that the li's still wrap. I'm trying to make them all appear in a single, unbroken horizontal line going off the rightmost edge of the page.
Try removing float:left as display:inline should suffice
When you float li's they will wrap when they reach the end of their parent container (which could be the body tag). If you are wanting the image to disappear out of the screen you will need to set the width of the parent container (the ul) and use overflow hidden or auto to get your desired effect.

How to bring the parent element with floated child elements to the center of the document?

I have organized a menu. Its HTML is as follows:
<ul class="topmenu">
<li>Text 1</li>
<li>Text 2</li>
<li>Text 3</li>
<li>Text 4</li>
<ul>
This is a horizontal menu, so I have floated the list items to left to appear them in a horizontal line. I could have used display:inline to appear them in a single line, but since IE does not support it and I don't know any other way to do so, I used float:left;.
It's css is:
.topmenu {
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.topmenu li {
float:left;
}
This brings the menu in a perfect horizontal line, but the entire list is floated to the left. I want to bring the .topmenu to appear in the center of the document and keep the listitem inside it floated towards the left.
I found that this is achievable by defining width property of the .topmenu, but I dont want to fix its width as the list-items are dynamically generated and thus could increase and decrease.
Any one know of any solution?
Here is the solution without using width:)
display: inline is supported fine by all versions of IE. It's inline-block that isn't supported completely in IE 6 and 7 (source).
This should be solvable by simply switching to display: inline.

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