Set div width issue in IE7

[amitavak]

Hi all,

I’m facing a css issue. In IE7, I set a div width to “auto” to set the div width according to the div content. But it does not work. IE8 works fine. All css property I set in the div are

/* Inline properties */
left: 571px;
top: 310px;
overflow: hidden;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: -22px;
display: block;
filter: alpha(opacity=1);
position: absolute;
z-index: 311;

/* style applied using a class */
.labels
{
color: red;
background-color: white;
font-family: “Lucida Grande” , “Arial” , sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
border: 2px solid black;
white-space: nowrap;
z-index: 8768;
opacity: 1;
min-width: 30px;
width: auto;
filter: alpha(opacity = 100) !important;
}

For reasons, I could not change Inline properties( position, overflow, top, left, zIndex, display, marginLeft, and marginTop).

If I remove width or minwidth, div width became 0. div width change with the value of minwidth or width. But I want that div width should change with it’s content.

Any help on this is much appreciated.

[SgtLegend]

This isn’t an answer but a reason why IE7 should be dropped from your browser list, currently global statistics show IE8 at around 9% of all web traffic which is extremely low and IE7 is even lower at 2-3% of all web traffic. Considering how low these numbers are I would personally set the baseline as IE9 as the chances someone visiting your website in IE 7/8 is extremely low as around 95-98% of corporations in the world use them still use them.

From a consumer level you would see higher traffic sources coming from Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE9+

[amitavak]

That’s true. But what to do if your client still using IE7.

[amitavak]

ok..finally the issue is solved by setting the style “overflow: visible !important” for the “labels” class.

.labels
{
/*………previous styles………..*/

overflow: visible !important
}

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