TW Bootstrap: How to overflow columns

Question

I want to have a row where columns are going to be horizontally scrollable:

As you can see the row is the outer block (with padding). Inside of it, there are columns where each has some span* class such as span3. And since all of the columns do not fit in the row, the scrollbar is on the bottom.

Here is what I tried doing (with inline css) and so far no luck.

<div class="row">

<!-- the parent element which will have scrollbar -->
<div class="span12" style="white-space: nowrap; overflow-x: auto;">

<div class="row">

<div class="span3" style="display: inline-block;">content here</div>
<div class="span3" style="display: inline-block;">content here</div>
<div class="span3" style="display: inline-block;">content here</div>
...

<div>

</div>

</div>

But then the columns just wrap once they can't fit into the row. How can I do this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Updated

I guess you just missed the float: none; : float forces display: block;.

Live demo (jsfiddle)

<div class="myClass">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="span5"></div>
        <div class="span5"></div>
        <div class="span5"></div>
    </div>
</div>

div.myClass {
    overflow-x: auto;
    white-space: nowrap;
}
div.myClass [class*="col"], /* TWBS v3 */
div.myClass [class*="span"] {  /* TWBS v2 */
    display: inline-block;
    float: none; /* Very important */
}

Anyway this is not because you can do it that you should. There are things like carousels that can achieve this kind of effects.

IMHO a web page is originally meant to be horizontally scrolled whereas JavaScript can do anything.

Answer 2

I took it a bit further. Scrollable horizontal columns!

   div.h-scrollable {
overflow-x: auto;
white-space: nowrap; 
}



 div.h-scrollable [class*="col"] {
    display: inline-block;
    float: none;
    white-space: normal;
    vertical-align: top;
  }

    <div class="h-scrollable container-fluid ">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-xs-1">
            <label>9:00am</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>BBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-xs-1">
            <label>9:00am</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>BBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahBlah blah blah blah blah blahah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-6">
            <label>Blah blah blah blah blah blah</label>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>