How do you make div elements display inline?

Solution 1:

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 -->

Solution 2:

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...

Solution 3:

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>

Solution 4:

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