Prevent wrapping of span or div

Question

I\'d like to put a group of div elements of fixed width into a container and have the horizontal scroll bar appeared. The div/span ele

Answer 1

Looks like divs will not go outside of their body's width. Even within another div.

I threw this up to test (without a doctype though) and it does not work as thought.

.slideContainer {
    overflow-x: scroll;
}
.slide {
    float: left;
}

    
Some content Some content Some content Some content Some content Some content
    
More content More content More content More content More content More content
    
Even More content! Even More content! Even More content!

What i am thinking is that the inner div's could be loaded through an iFrame, since that is another page and its content could be very wide.