CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user2879704
user2879704

Reputation:

Width - fifty per cent for table cell display breaks into seperate line

I am trying to display a panel that displays information in a tabular fashion as, enter image description here

My pluker code is here. Now, i use display:table-row to put NAME label and value My Venue in one place. When i give 50% width to the table-cell display, it breaks into next line as,

enter image description here

I am able to fix it by making the width as 49% for table-cell display.

I am curious why does 50% width break it into a different line, since table display doesn't have any margin.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 27

Answers (2)

mlegg
mlegg

Reputation: 832

Use a responsive grid system like this jsfiddle

/*  SECTIONS  */
.section {
	clear: both;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}

/*  COLUMN SETUP  */
.col {
	display: block;
	float:left;
	margin: 1% 0 1% 1.6%;
}
.col:first-child { margin-left: 0; }

/*  GROUPING  */
.group:before,
.group:after { content:""; display:table; }
.group:after { clear:both;}
.group { zoom:1; /* For IE 6/7 */ }
/*  GRID OF TWO  */
.span_2_of_2 {
	width: 100%;
}
.span_1_of_2 {
	width: 49.2%;
}

/*  GO FULL WIDTH AT LESS THAN 480 PIXELS */

@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
	.col { 
		margin: 1% 0 1% 0%;
	}
}

@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
	.span_2_of_2, .span_1_of_2 { width: 100%; }
}
<div class="section group">
	<div class="col span_1_of_2">
	My Name
	</div>
	<div class="col span_1_of_2">
	My Venue
	</div>
</div>

Upvotes: 0

hobbs
hobbs

Reputation: 240649

There's whitespace between the two spans. That whitespace is rendered as a space, the space has a nonzero width. After 50% plus the width of a space, there isn't room for another 50%, so the second span wraps. If you butt the </span><span> right against each other with no whitespace in between, the wrapping goes away. There are other ways to deal with the problem, including adjusting the font-size to 0 so that the space will have zero width, or using other methods for layout.

Upvotes: 1

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