Width equal to content [duplicate]

Answer 1

just use display: table; on your case.

Answer 2

The solution with inline-block forces you to insert <br> after each element.
The solution with float forces you to wrap all elements with "clearfix" div.

Another elegant solution is to use display: table for elements.

With this solution you don't need to insert line breaks manually (like with inline-block), you don't need a wrapper around your elements (like with floats) and you can center your element if you need.

http://jsfiddle.net/8md3jy4r/3/

Answer 3

set width attribute as: width: fit-content

demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rvrjp7/pyq3C/114

Answer 4

Adding display: inline-block; to the p styling should take of it:

http://jsfiddle.net/pyq3C/

#container p{
    background-color: green;
    display: inline-block;
}

Answer 5

Set display:inline-block and then adjust your margins.

fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/Q2MrC/

Answer 6

Using display:inline-block; it will work only for a correct sentence with spaces like

#container {
    width: 30%;
    background-color: grey;
    overflow:hidden;
    margin:10px;
}
#container p{
    display:inline-block;
    background-color: green;
}

<h5>Correct sentence with spaces </h5>
<div id="container">
    <p>Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1</p>
</div>
<h5>No specaes (not working )</h5>
<div id="container">
    <p>SampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSamplesadasdsadasdasdsa</p>
</div>

Why not using word-wrap: break-word;? it's made to allow long words to be able to break and wrap onto the next line.

#container {
    width: 30%;
    background-color: grey;
    overflow:hidden;
    margin:10px;
}
#container p{
   word-wrap: break-word;
    background-color: green;
}

<h5> Correct sentence with spaces </h5>
<div id="container">
    <p>Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1 Sample Text 1</p>
</div>
<h5>No specaes</h5>
<div id="container">
    <p>SampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSampleSamplesadasdsadasdasdsa</p>
</div>