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Horizontal scrolling not wroking

I'm using the jsfiddle/code from this question Create horizontally scrolling List Item view using Bootstrap Columns but for some reason it doesn't work for me and I can't find out why.

I have a simple html file

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
 <head>
  <title>this is the title</title>
   <link href="projects.css" rel="stylesheet">
 </head>
 <body>
<div class="DocumentList">
    <ul class="list-inline">
        <li class="DocumentItem">
            <span>Test Data1</span>
        </li>
        <li class="DocumentItem">
            <span>Test Data1</span>
        </li>
        <li class="DocumentItem">
            <span>Test Data1</span>
        </li>
        <li class="DocumentItem">
            <span>Test Data1</span>
        </li>
        <li class="DocumentItem">
            <span>Test Data1</span>
        </li>
        <li class="DocumentItem">
            <span>Test Data1</span>
        </li>
        <li class="DocumentItem">
            <span>Test Data1</span>
        </li>
        <li class="DocumentItem">
            <span>Test Data1</span>
        </li>
        <li class="DocumentItem">
            <span>Test Data1</span>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

 </body>
</html>

plus my css file

.DocumentList
{
    overflow-x:scroll;
    overflow-y:hidden;
    height:200px;
    width:100%;
    padding: 0 15px;
}

.DocumentItem
{
    border:1px solid black;
    padding:0;
    height:200px;
}

.list-inline{
  white-space:nowrap;
}

but only this shows up:

enter image description here

help?

Solution

  • adding display: inline-block to .DocumentItem will fix this issue issue!

    border: 1px solid black;
padding: 0;
width: 500px;
display: inline-block;
height: 200px;

    Note I've added width: 500px to your DocumentItem class so you can really see the difference!

    I've also created a fiddle for you: https://jsfiddle.net/tfdedn3y/