Divide Width of Element Between Child Divs With CSS

Question

I have a varying number of inline-block divs that I want to collectively take up 100% of their parent. Can this be done without JavaScript? The only way I can think of is with a table but it's of course bad practice to use a table solely for layout purposes.

|----------------------| |{  div 1  }{  div 2  }|            or |{div 1}{div  2}{div 3}| |----------------------| 

I have also tried { display:block; float:left; } but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Answer 1

You can use display:table-cell on your inner divs to do this. For the browser to make the inner divs behave like table cells, it also needs two layers of containing elements: one to acts as the table, and another to act as the table-row.

For a structure like this:

   <div class="outer">        <div class="middle">           <div class="inner">Item 1</div>            <div class="inner">Item 2</div>            <div class="inner">Item 3</div>            <div class="inner">Item 4</div>         </div>    </div> 

Use this CSS:

div.outer {display:table;} div.middle {display:table-row;} div.inner {display:table-cell;} 

A nice structure to use is a UL wrapped in a DIV: the DIV acts as a table, the UL as a row, and the LI's as table-cells.

This technique is not well supported in older browsers - for anything older than IE8, you're out of luck entirely.

Let me know if you need more sample code than that!

Answer 2

You can utilize css3 benefits here. I was also facing this issue now i have fixed that using below example code

.parent-container {    padding: 0;    margin: 0;    list-style: none;    display: -webkit-box;    display: -moz-box;    display: -ms-flexbox;    display: -webkit-flex;    display: flex;    -webkit-flex-flow: row wrap;    justify-content: space-around;    -webkit-justify-content: space-around;    flex-wrap: nowrap;    -webkit-flex-wrap: nowrap;  }  .child-item {    margin: 5px;    text-align: center;    padding: 10px;    background-color: red;    color: #fff;  }

<ul class="parent-container">    <li class="child-item">1</li>    <li class="child-item">2</li>    <li class="child-item">3</li>    <li class="child-item">4</li>    <li class="child-item">5</li>    <li class="child-item">6</li>    <li class="child-item">7</li>  </ul>

Thanks & Regards, Lingeshram