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prevent menu elements from overlapping when window resized

I have a simple design shown here:

<style>
.section {
      clear: both;
      padding: 0px;
      margin: 0px;
}
.col {
      display: block;
      float:left;
      margin: 1% 0 1% 0;
}
.span1 {
      width: 16.1%;
}
@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
      .col { margin: 1% 0 1% 0%;}
      .span1 { width: 100%; }
}
</style>
<div class="section group">
      <div class="col span1">
      ElementOne
      </div>
      <div class="col span1">
      ElementTwo
      </div>
      <div class="col span1">
      LongerElementThree
      </div>
      <div class="col span1">
      ElementFour
      </div>
      <div class="col span1">
      ElementFive
      </div>
      <div class="col span1">
      ElementSix
      </div>
</div>

See how the LongerElementThree overlaps before the elements stack?
So I want to know how to prevent this.
Thanks

Insoftservice inso

Please provide the screen shot of overlapping as at my end there is no such overlapping.

dgrafx

ASKER

See how the longer element text gets overlapped?
menu-overlap.png

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Scott Fell

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dgrafx

ASKER

ok right - your jsbin example is what I was trying for ...
thanks for the words - i will look into it!

thanks

Scott Fell

Your welcome! Once you get your head wrapped around the basic classes you will kick yourself for not doing this sooner.

I meant to provide the link http://getbootstrap.com/ The key is the grid http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid where columns are wrapped in a row class then col-xs-1, col-sm-1, col-md-1 or col-lg-1 where the "1" can be any number from 1 to 12 as there are 12 columns. If you want 1 column for the phone, 3 columns for ipad and 6 columns for desktop you would use

<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-md-2"> stuff </div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-md-2"> stuff </div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-md-2"> stuff </div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-md-2"> stuff </div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-md-2"> stuff </div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-4 col-md-2"> stuff </div>
</div>

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dgrafx

ASKER

Thanks Scott