Having the floating children elements determine parent width

Question

Here is an example

http://jsfiddle.net/BringMeAnother/LwXhE/

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Answer 1

Late to the party here, but all you really need is to add display: inline-block. And to center the .container div, just apply text-align: center to whatever contains it.

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/LwXhE/24/