CSS No Text Wrap

CSS no text wrap

Additionally to overflow:hidden, use

white-space:nowrap;

How to turn off word wrapping in HTML?

You need to use the CSS white-space attribute.

In particular, white-space: nowrap and white-space: pre are the most commonly used values. The first one seems to be what you 're after.

CSS to stop text wrapping under image

Since this question is gaining lots of views and this was the accepted answer, I felt the need to add the following disclaimer:

This answer was specific to the OP's question (Which had the width set in the examples). While it works, it requires you to have a width on each of the elements, the image and the paragraph. Unless that is your requirement, I recommend using Joe Conlin's solution which is posted as another answer on this question.

The span element is an inline element, you can't change its width in CSS.

You can add the following CSS to your span so you will be able to change its width.

display: block;

Another way, which usually makes more sense, is to use a <p> element as a parent for your <span>.

<li id="CN2787">
  <img class="fav_star" src="images/fav.png">
  <p>
     <span>Text, text and more text</span>
  </p>
</li>

Since <p> is a block element, you can set its width using CSS, without having to change anything.

But in both cases, since you have a block element now, you will need to float the image so that your text doesn't all go below your image.

li p{width: 100px; margin-left: 20px}
.fav_star {width: 20px;float:left}

P.S. Instead of float:left on the image, you can also put float:right on li p but in that case, you will also need text-align:left to realign the text correctly.

P.S.S. If you went ahead with the first solution of not adding a <p> element, your CSS should look like so:

li span{width: 100px; margin-left: 20px;display:block}
.fav_star {width: 20px;float:left}

CSS Text doesn't wrap?

It does not wrap because you have a long word with no spaces.

In this case, use:

word-wrap: break-word;

How to stop text from taking up more than 1 line?

div {
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
}

<div>testing quite a lot of text that just doesn't wrap because it is too long a run-on sentance with so many useless words for you to not read today despite every effort you make to do so including stretching your browser width to the maximum length unless however you utilized your browser's zooming out feature or manually modifying the CSS in which case you are definitely cheating and ruining this fun little game of me typing out as many words as can be fitted into one ridiculously long run-on sentence of the twenty-first century anno domini using my traditional keyboard and two monitors at 1080p while going through every effort to painstakingly ramble on and on but just not exactly repeating myself short of reusing a couple of words in multiple places throughout this HTML even though that would be about a thousand times easier than what I'm currently doing on this day to pointlessly avoid work regardless of its futility given that it'll only create consequences for myself in having to work harder to catch up later of course all of that notwithstanding moderation efforts to tone back my extensive efforts to make this somewhat enjoyable to read while making it as long as possible who may or may not revert this edit in spite of its usefulness since the previous edit only contained four words that could not possibly wrap even without the CSS changes due to their short nature which is invariably going to create more questions than it answers such as can be found in the comments section which is exactly why I created this effort in order to address one of those about the purpose of the overflow attribute which if you have modified you will now see lets you read the entirety of this text through the benefits of horizontal scrolling features but on the other hand if only overflow was used and text-wrap was left out then you will continue to see a vertical scrollbar unless you set a fixed height for this div in which case you certainly should see that vertical overflow is hidden though that would only happen if you did not put this example into fullscreen short of having your viewport set to a small enough height which can actually be further defined to a designated number of lines as opposed to one by using a height set to a multiple of the CSS property defined by line-height which could be a percentage of white-space and that would indeed hide the vertical overflow of this mountain of text which I'm really quite surprised that you managed to linger on here to read through its frivolous nature on the famed site known by programmers as Stack Overflow and for that I congratulate you for potentially wasting your time</div>

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