How can I prevent floated div elements from wrapping when the browser is re-sized?
Wrap them in another div, which has a width (or min-width) specified.
<div class="parentContainer">
<div class="floater"></div>
<div class="floater"></div>
<div class="floater"></div>
</div>
.parentContainer {
/* The width of the parent needs to be equal to the total width of the children.
Be sure to include margins/padding/borders in the total. */
width: 600px;
overflow: auto;
}
It also helps to have overflow: auto specified on the containing div, to allow its height to match the child floats.
I'm pretty late to the game, but here's what I've found that works:
Let's say you have a navigation structured as:
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Example Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Example Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Example Link</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
To get it to display the links inline, without ever wrapping, you can simply use:
nav ul {
white-space: nowrap;
}
nav ul li {
display: table-cell;
}
No fixed widths or anything required.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/gdf3prb4/
Make the container div around them
.container {
width: 500px;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: visible/hidden/scroll - whichever suits you;
}