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Question

I'm trying to achieve something quite tricky in CSS, but also quite "simple" :

Explanation:

Some element with text inside it (unknown width) with 2 elements on each side of it, both occupying the remaining space.

I thought of going with display:table for the container and for the 3 children going display:table-cell but it just doesn't work, or I don't know how to use it properly..

Answer 1

Demo playground

HTML

<header>
  <h1>Some title</h1>
</header>

CSS

header{ 
  display:table;
  text-align:center; 
  width:50%; 
}
header:before, header:after{ 
  content:'';
  display:table-cell; 
  background:red; 
  width:50%;
  border-radius:5px; 
}
header > h1{ white-space:pre; padding:0 10px; }

Answer 2

This is using display: table and display: table-cell to make this bar and text.

HTML

<div class="textBarContainer">
    <div class="textBarBefore"></div>
    <div class="textBar">Text</div>
    <div class="textBarAfter"></div>
</div>

CSS

.textBarContainer {
    display: table;
    width: 100%;
}
.textBar {
    display: table-cell;
    padding: 0 10px;
    white-space: pre;
}
.textBarAfter, .textBarBefore {
    background: #cc0000;
    width: 50%;
    height: 20px;
    display: table-cell;
    content:' ';
    border-radius: 5px;
}

Demo

Answer 3

<ul class="columnlayout">
 <li>
   <div>Left content</div>
 </li>

 <li class="centercontent">
   <div>middle text content</div>
 </li>

 <li>
   <div>Right content</div>
 </li>
</ul>

//columns layout
ul.columnlayout
{
    margin:0;
    width:100%;
    display:block;
    clear:both;
    list-style-type: none;

    > li
    {
        float:left;
        margin:0;
        list-style-type:none;
                    width:200px;

                    &.centercontent
                    {
                       width:auto;
                    }

        ul.xoxo
        {
            list-style-type: none;

            li
            {
                list-style-type: none;
            }
        }
    }
}

oh, pardon my .scss!

ul.columnlayout {
    margin:0;
    width:100%;
    display:block;
    clear:both;
    list-style-type: none;
   }

  ul.columnlayout li {
    float:left;
    margin:0;
    list-style-type:none;
    width:200px;
  }

    ul.columnlayout li.centercontent {
      width:auto;
    }