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Given the following HTML. It display two columns: #left, #right. Both are fixed width and have 1px borders. Width and borders equal the size of upper container: #wrap.
When I zoom out Firefox 3.5.2 by pressing Ctrl+- columns get wrapped (demo).
How to prevent this?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
div {float:left}
#wrap {width:960px}
#left, #right {width:478px;border:1px solid}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<div id="left">
left
</div>
<div id="right">
right
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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To fix the problem with zooming in, try adding the min-width attribute to your outer countainer ( #container or #navbar ?). Setting min-width prevents the webpage from trying to shrink down beyond the specified width (i.e. 300px).
Add width: 1000px; to your container. Then the layout should stay consistent.
Luckily, if you're as annoyed as I am about this, there is a quick and easy fix. Step One: Open up Firefox and click the address bar (where you enter a URL) and then type about:config and press ENTER. Step Two: You'll see a warning pop up. Go ahead and click the button that says, “I'll be careful, I promise!”
min-width: 100%; This will freeze the width, you can do the same for height too.
Try switching to a different box model as follows:
#left, #right
{
width:480px;
border:1px solid;
box-sizing: border-box;
/* and for older/other browsers: */
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-ms-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box
}
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