Prevent line break between two elements in CSS

For some basic layout work I'm doing, I'd like links that immediately follow a price to always be shown on the same line as the price. The price text is wrapped in a <span class="price"> tag while the link uses the buy-link class as in <a href="/buy" cla开发者_StackOverflow中文版ss="buy-link">Buy Now</a>.

I'm looking for CSS that will automatically prevent line breaking between the span and a tag but I'm either missing something or it can't be done. I can easily prevent line breaks within the two tags - but not between them.

I want to avoid wrapping both tags in a span with a white-space: nowrap manually and use pure CSS if possible.

Update: The HTML looks something like the following. It's not the real code but very similar.

<style>
    .price{ font-weight: bold; }
    .buy-link{ color: green; }
</style>

<span class="price">$50</span> <a href="/buy" class="buy-link">Buy Now</a>

If the link happens to be near the page edge - or block edge in a <div> or <table> browsers will wrap the Buy Now link to the next line. Separating the two elements.

Can't you nest the anchor inside the span, like

<span class="price"><a href="/buy" class="buy-link">Buy Now</a>&nbsp;Only $19.95!</span>

then set the span to white-space: nowrap?

<span class="price">$50</span>&nbsp;<a href="/buy" class="buy-link">Buy Now</a>

Solution using css method white-space:nowrap

<style>
   div{width:10px;white-space:nowrap;}
  .price{ font-weight: bold; }
  .buy-link{ color: green; }
</style>
<div>
  <span class="price">$50</span>
  <a href="/buy" class="buy-link">Buy Now</a>
</div>​

Solution using HTML method (In case you're not in the mood to use white-space:nowrap;)

    <style>
        .price{ font-weight: bold; }
        .buy-link{ color: green; }
    </style>

    <span class="price">$50</span>&nbsp;<a href="/buy" class="buy-link">Buy&nbsp;Now</a>
<!--Just removing the breaking whitespace between "Buy" and "Now"-->

*Just removed the breaking space between "Buy" and "Now" and inserted a nbsp (non-breaking space) so that the break/wrap doesn't occur *

See this fiddle with the wrapping effect: http://jsfiddle.net/8SP2C/2/

See this fiddle with css white-space:nowrap: http://jsfiddle.net/8SP2C/1/

See this fiddle with html method : http://jsfiddle.net/8SP2C/3/

I have just tested this in all five browsers and it works fine. You don't need a parent class. To bold something without creating a line break, just do this:

First put this in the head portion of your html:

<style type="text/css">
.makeBold /* to only be used with SPAN: (i.e.) <span class="makeBold"></span>  */
{
   font-weight:bold;
   width:122px;    /* This should be the width length of the thing you are bolding */
   white-space:nowrap; 
}
</style>

Later in the Body of your HTML you should just use span.

<span class="makeBold">BOLD THIS TEXT</span> 

You can use span inside a Div and stay HTML5 compliant.

Enjoy

As <span> element is meant for inline grouping by default, the price and link should be on same line.

I guess some CSS is over-riding it.