Hello,
I'm working on a 'widget' for a site I'm working on. What it does is add 'nudge' buttons to the right of every <input type="text" class="myClassName"> field on a page. The buttons are to increment/decrement the integer in the field. The field might appear in a variety of contexts (in a TD on its own, or in the middle of a paragraph, for examples), and I want the creation of the buttons not to disturb that context.
What I've done so far is to wrap the input in a span, float the input to the left inside the span, then add another span containing the two buttons, which are display:block. This gets the object itself looking OK, but then the following content is pushed to the right of the floated input. What I want (in an inline context) is for the context that follows the outer span to continue inline, so really I can't use floats inside it.
Can anyone demonstrate a way of creating a self-contained element that is either inline or block according to the original input's context, and wherein the buttons will always appear stacked vertically to the right of the input?
This is for an intranet app so the main target browser is IE7, but Firefox 3 support would be appreciated (by me!) also.
Looking forward to your wisdon ;)
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Hi, thanks for looking in ;)
Sorry for omitting the code; it's mostly generated by JavaScript (though the JS isn't the problem here) so what's below is a static representation of what it ends up like. I've only just looked at it in IE7 (was testing in Firefox earlier) and the display is even worse :(
The below is just one example of a context an input might appear in. It might equally be in a TD or other element, though generally its own display will be inline.
Never mind, I've found a solution myself.
Making the inner span (the one containing the two buttons) display:inline-block makes them line up as desired, without having to resort to any floats, and keeping the whole thing inline.
I hadn't even considered using inline-block as I thought neither browser supported it properly, but on researching I noticed that now both do! Splendid work browser-dudes!
Thanks for having a look anyway.
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by: glumlunPosted on 2008-07-04 at 07:03:22ID: 21933170
hi, would be nice to see some code for this.
id suggest using float on the span that holds the input and then margin-left: [width of the preceding element]; on the span containing the buttons
if you dont always know the width then maybe try clear: both; on the elements that are being "pushed to the right of the floated input"