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.container
{
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
height: 25px;
left: 200px;
padding-right: 5px;
background-color: black;
overflow: hidden;
}
.child
{
position: relative;
float: left;
height: 100%;
width: 95px;
background-color: #99CCFF;
margin-left: 5px;
}
I when the size of the browser window is smaller than will allow for all the children to fit without wrapping I would like there to be a scrollbar, not the default mechanism of the child elements wrapping.
I'm not in control of the number of child elements so I can not set a width on the container. How can I prevent the wrapping of the child elements?
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If you want to prevent the text from wrapping, you can apply white-space: nowrap; Notice in HTML code example at the top of this article, there are actually two line breaks, one before the line of text and one after, which allow the text to be on its own line (in the code).
Use "overflow: hidden" to avoid floating elements from wrapping a container's text. Unfortunately, any content of the content 's text will wrap underneath it: 
