I try to build fluid layout using percentages as widths. Do do so i tried this:
A
Give this parent
DIV font-size:0. Write like this:
<div style="font-size:0">
<div style="width:50%; display:inline-table;font-size:15px">A</div>
<div style="width:50%; display:inline-table;font-size:15px">B</div>
</div>
The problem you run into when setting width to 50% is the rounding of subpixels. If the width of your container is i.e. 99 pixels, a width of 50% can result in 2 containers of 50 pixels each.
Using float is probably easiest, and not such a bad idea. See this question for more details on how to fix the problem then.
If you don't want to use float, try using a width of 49%. This will work cross-browser as far as I know, but is not pixel-perfect..
html:
<div id="a">A</div>
<div id="b">B</div>
css:
#a, #b {
width: 49%;
display: inline-block;
}
#a {background-color: red;}
#b {background-color: blue;}
The problem is that if you have a new line between them in the HTML, then you get a space between them when you use inline-table
or inline-block
50% + 50% + that space > 100% and that's why the second one ends up below the first one
Solutions:
<div></div><div></div>
or
<div>
</div><div>
</div>
or
<div></div><!--
--><div></div>
The idea is not to have any kind of space between the first closing div tag and the second opening div tag in your HTML.
PS - I would also use inline-block
instead of inline-table
for this