div auto responsive to text inside

Question

I have a DIV inside another. One of those has "plain text" and what I want to do is to make its width automatic with a maximum with possible.

Here is the code:

HTML:

<div class="artigo_nome"> <!-- here is the part that I need help -->
    <p>
        Computador Apple Imac 27P I5 3.5Ghz/8Gb/1Tb Md096Po/A
    </p>
</div>
<div class="artigo_definicoes round_corner">
    <div class="separador_artigo_imagem">
        <img src="img/artigos/fones.png" class="imagem_artigo" alt="artigo"/>
    </div>
    <div class="artigo_info">
       Computador Apple Imac 27P I5 3.5Ghz/8Gb/1Tb Md096Po/A<br />
       <span class="ler_mais">ver mais</span><br />
       <span class="comparar">adicionar para comprar</span>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

.categoria_lista_artigos .artigo_nome{
    color:#6e6e6e;
    width:234px;
    height:34px;
    margin-left: -2px;
    border-radius:5px 5px 0 0;
    border-left:2px #aeaeae solid;
    border-right:2px #aeaeae solid;
    border-bottom:1px #aeaeae solid;
    /*background-color:#E6E6E6;*/
    position:relative;
    font-weight: 600;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px -3px 5px #e2e2e2;
    -moz-box-shadow:    0px -3px 5px #e2e2e2;
    box-shadow:         0px -3px 5px #e2e2e2;
    background: #ffffff; /* Old browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%, #cfcfcf 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#ffffff), color-stop(100%,#cfcfcf)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#cfcfcf 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#cfcfcf 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 0%,#cfcfcf 100%); /* IE10+ */
    background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #ffffff 0%,#cfcfcf 100%); /* W3C */
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffffff', endColorstr='#cfcfcf',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
}

.categoria_lista_artigos .artigo_nome div {
    margin: auto;
    padding: 4px 13px;
    vertical-align: middle;
    line-height:13px;
}

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Answer 1

What you want is a shrink-to-fit width for your text line.

You can simplify your HTML as follows:

<div class="artigo_nome">
Computador Apple Imac 27P I5 3.5Ghz/8Gb/1Tb Md096Po/A
</div>

and apply the following CSS rules:

.artigo_nome {
    border: 1px dotted blue;
    display: inline-block;
    max-width: 250px;
    padding: 10px;
    word-break: break-all; /* optional */
}

which gives the following result: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/vVhWR/

The inline-block will give you a shrink-to-fit width up to the specified max-width value.

If you want to be able to wrap long words, add the word-break property.

Note: I left out the border/shadow/background styling for simplicity, but you can easily add them back in.