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coldkill

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Hey folks,

another problem has come up with a new site I'm developing. I'm trying to get two divs to be in line with each other, I've tried using display: inline; to no avail, in fact it came up with a lot of errors in both IE and FX.

 

Any ideas what I can do?

 

Cold

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If using inline, it's very similar to using inline for list items with DIVs instead, and you will have to use margin or padding to space them out. Maybe instead float the first div left and specify width for both DIVs. Depends on what you're trying to do.

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When I try to make two divs inline I do something like this (not tested). The basics are I set the width for both divs. I float the left (or right) div and use clear:both afterwards so nothing gets caught in the float. Works perfect everytime (with a bit o' tweaking of course).

 

<style type="text/css">
  #a {
    float:left;
    width:200px;
    background:green;
  }

  #b {
    width:200px;
    background:red;
  }

  .clear {
    clear:both;
  }
</style>

 

<html>
  <div id="a">left content</div>
  <div id="b">right content</div>
  <div class="clear"></div>
</html>

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Ok, here's the code that is applicable:

 

<div id="content_wrap">
		<div id="providers">
			<div class="header">Powered By</div>
Images here
		</div>

		<div id="content">
Stuff here
		</div>
	</div>

 

#content_wrap
{
width: 900px;
padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px;
}

#content
{
width: 740px;
margin-left: 140px;
border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;

}

.header
{
padding: 2px 0px 2px 0px;
background-image: url(images/header_background.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
}


/*
*	Providers
*/
#providers
{
width: 120px;
border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}

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