How to Avoid Wrapping in CSS Float

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.

Prevent wrapping of floated span element with CSS

You can set .title to white-space:nowrap + display:table.

.title {
  white-space: nowrap;
  display: table;
}

.title {

  background-color: lightblue;

  color: green;

  white-space: nowrap;

  display: table;

}

.description {

  font-weight: bold;

  color: black;

}

Long:

<div class="container">

  <h3 class="title">

    title

    <span class="description">descriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescription</span>

  </h3>

</div>

<br>

Short:

<div class="container">

  <h3 class="title">

    title

    <span class="description">description</span>

  </h3>

</div>

Prevent float from wrapping and force text-overflow when needed

Use flexbox:

div {

  background: #abcdef;

  display: flex;

}

.name {

  text-overflow: ellipsis;

  overflow: hidden;

  white-space: nowrap;

}

.size {

  margin: 0 .5em;

}

.price {

  margin-left: auto;

}

<div>

  <span class="name">Blue Widgets Over Miami</span>

  <span class="size">large</span>

  <span class="price">$9.99</span>

</div>

<br />

<div>

  <span class="name">Blue Widgets Over Miami Blue Widgets Over Miami Blue Widgets Over Miami Blue Widgets Over Miami Blue Widgets Over Miami Blue Widgets Over Miami Blue Widgets Over Miami Blue Widgets Over Miami Blue Widgets Over Miami Blue Widgets Over Miami</span>

  <span class="size">large</span>

  <span class="price">$9.99</span>

</div>

Is it possible to prevent wrapping of child elements in HTML?

If you don't want wrapping, you should not use floats - they were created specifically for wrapping.

Use a parent container with overflow:auto and white-space:nowrap and children with display:inline or inline-block.

Prevent floated divs from wrapping to new line

This should be all you need.

    .float-wrap {

      /* 816 = <number of floats> * (<float width> + 2 * <float border width>) */

      width: 816px;

      border: 1px solid;

      /* causes .float-wrap's height to match its child divs */

      overflow: auto;

    }

    .left-floater {

      width: 100px;

      height: 100px;

      border: 1px solid;

      float: left;

    }

    .outer {

      overflow-x: scroll;

    }

<div class="outer">

  <div class="float-wrap">

    <div class="left-floater">

      One

    </div>

    <div class="left-floater">

      Two

    </div>

    <div class="left-floater">

      Three

    </div>

    <div class="left-floater">

      I should be to the <s>left</s> right of "Three"

    </div>

    <div class="left-floater">

      I float.

    </div>

    <div class="left-floater">

      I float.

    </div>

    <div class="left-floater">

      I float.

    </div>

    <div class="left-floater">

      I float.

    </div>

  </div>

</div>

CSS non-wrapping floating divs

Use display: inline-block instead of floatand give the container white-space: nowrap.

div#sub > div#ranking {
    position:relative;
    top:42px;
    left:7px;
    width:722px;
    height:125px;
    overflow-x:auto;
    overflow-y:hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
}
div#sub > div#ranking > div.player {
    display: inline-block;
    width:67px;
    height:120px;
    margin-left:5px;
    background-color:#f3e1bb;
}

Here an example: http://jsfiddle.net/D5hUu/3/

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}