CSS: aligning elements inside a div?

I think you problem is that you floated the left and right element but not the center one. Try something like this.

I think you problem is that you floated the left and right element but not the center one. Try something like this: CSS: HTML: Left Element Middle Element Right Element.

1 You'd need to add a float clearing method to this so you can avoid specifying the height of the container div, but otherwise you identified the problem, the center div id not floated so it is still a block level element. – Brent Friar Apr 30 at 14:48 You're right Brent. I usually use some kind of clearfix style, applied as a class to the container.

I'm used to writing all my styles in less now so writing longform like this without my mixins and variables, I sometimes overlook that stuff. – Jonathan Miller Apr 30 at 16:40.

You haven't included css for your container div, but whenever it contains floating elements you should hide overflow like so: #container { overflow: hidden; width: 100%; /* for good measure */ } When you position the middle div you are setting margins that span the entire container, so any further elements are getting positioned on the line below. Note, at least for most modern browsers, further. If you reorder your elements, like so: I am the text in right element I am the text inside the middle element You should find it works.

Better method, as I'm not quite sure whether that is supposed to work, would be to use css positioning. Apply the following css: #container { overflow: hidden; width: 100%; min-height: 36px; /* Remember absolute positioning is outside the page flow! */ position: relative; } #left-element { position: absolute; left: 9px; top: 3px; width: 13px; } #middle-element { margin: 0 auto; text-align: center; width: 300px; } #right-element { position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 0px; width: 100px; }.

Of course, that is presuming the middle element is of an unknown height or variable font size. Otherwise you could just apply margin-top: -##px; to the right-element ;) – lpd Apr 30 at 14:43 overflow:hidden is not a good method of clearing the floats because it cause unexpected issues with CSS3 properties. Clearfix is the better way to go.Fordinteractive.Com/2009/12/goodbye-overflow-clearing-hack – Brent Friar Apr 30 at 14:46.

The problem is specifically that the middle div has a width set but is not floated, meaning it is still a block level element. Even though the div itself does not go the entire width of the container, it is still treated as such. You need to do 2 things - float the middle div, then clear the floats so the container grows with the height of the child divs. The clearfix method is preferred since it does not cause issues with CSS3 properties that naturally extend outside the bounds of the element they are applied to (box-shadow, text-shadow, etc).

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