CSS Float Confusion

[Lee Saxon]

div {
     border:solid 1px #000;
     float:left;
     margin:5px 15px;
}
h1 {
     border-bottom:solid 1px #000;
     text-align:center;
}


<h1>Title Here</h1>
<div>Important Info</div>
<article> [lots of text] </article>

Gives me:

How do I make the h1 and its border only as wide as whatever text it contains? It was suggested I add this to the h1 style:

display:inline-block

But that makes the float misbehave:

 

[Ken g6]

Add clear:both to the div?

 

[GregGreen]

http://jsfiddle.net/aVV2U/1/

I think you are looking for it to look like that?

An h1, by default, is a block element, which means it expands to 100% of the width of its container.

When you float something, it takes it out of the normal flow of the document and moves it as close to the top of the document as it can, space permitting.

If there is something in the code that is different than what you want or if you need more explanation after looking at it, let me know.

PS: I added the margin to the .container div to make up for what the h1 lost when I went from a block to inline element -- inline elements cannot have margin like that.

 

[Lee Saxon]

Greg, yes, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.