How to put spacing between floating divs

Question

i have a parent div  which can change its size  depending on the available space  Within that div  i have floating divs  Now  i would like to have spacing between these divs  but no space to the parent div  see drawing      Is there a way to do this with CSS   Thank you

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You can do the following   Assuming your container div has a class  yellow     yellow div          Apply margin to every child in this container     margin  10px      yellow div first-child   yellow div nth-child 3n 1           Remove the margin on the left side on the very first and then every fourth element  for example      margin-left  0      yellow div last-child          Remove the right side margin on the last element     margin-right  0      The number 3n 1 equals every fourth element outputted and will clearly only work if you know how many will be displayed in a row  but it should illustrate the example  More details regarding nth-child here   Note  For  first-child to work in IE8 and earlier  a  lt  DOCTYPE gt  must be declared   Note2  The  nth-child   selector is supported in all major browsers  except IE8 and earlier

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I found a solution  which at least helps in my situation  it probably is not suitable for other situations   I give all my green child divs a complete margin   margin  10px    And for the surrounding yellow parent div i set a negative margin   margin  -10px    I also had to remove any explicit width or height setting for the yellow parent div  otherwise it did not work   This way  in absolute terms  the child divs are correctly aligned  although the parent yellow div obviously is set off  which in my case is OK  because it will not be visible

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I m late to the party but    I ve had a similar situation come up and I discovered padding-right  and bottom  top  left too  of course   From the way I understand its definition  it puts a padding area inside the inner div so there s no need to add a negative margin on the parent as you did with a margin   padding-right  10px    This did the trick for me

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Add margin to your div style  margin 0 10px 10px 0    http   www w3schools com css css margin asp

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Is it not just a case of applying an appropriate class to each div   For example    firstRowDiv   margin 0px 10px 10px 0px     secondRowDiv   margin 0px 10px 0px 0px      This depends on if you know in advance which div to apply which class to

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A litte late answer    If you want to use a grid like this  you should have a look at Bootstrap  It s relatively easy to install  and it gives you exactly what you are looking for  all wrapped in nice and simple html css   it works easily for making websites responsive

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