horizontal scroll bar for gallery

im really pulling my hair out with this one. ive sat here for about 5+hours plus trying to figure it out and trial/error the possibilities. i have a central positioned page with a fixed width and i want to set a space in the middle for a gallery that horizontally scrolls. this is proving a big problem.

this is my css:

#container {
 height: 800px;
 width: 950px;
 margin: auto;
 overflow: visible;
}
#header {
 background-image: url(images/header.gif);
 height: 155px;
 width: 950px;
}
#main {
 height: 417px;
 over开发者_StackOverflow社区flow-x: scroll;
 overflow-y: hidden;
 width: auto;
 background-color: #000;
 float: left;
 /* [disabled]white-space: nowrap; */
 /* [disabled]overflow: scroll; */
}
#footer {
 background-image: url(images/footer.gif);
 height: 128px;
 width: 950px;
 background-repeat: no-repeat;
 clear: both;
}
.text {
 font-family: "Arial Narrow", Futura-Book, sans-serif;
 font-size: 70%;
 width: 14px;
}
.pics {
 padding-left: 10px;
 float: left;
 padding-top: 10px;
 overflow-x: scroll;
 overflow-y: hidden;
}

i am a newb and trying so hard to learn, but i really cant figure this out. i dont want a table. i can create a vertically scrolling box, but thats not what i want.

please all help very much appreciated

thanks

I know this is an old question, but I wanted to say that I don't think float works that way. Any element with a left or right float will override your settings and make room for itself on the next line.

To fix that, I took away the float property for the images and gave their container a white-space:nowrap;

You can see what I did with the code here, in action.

This is the CSS:

#footer {
    white-space: nowrap;
    float:left;
    background-color:grey;
    max-height: 128px;
    width:950px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    overflow: scroll;
    clear: both;
}
.pics {
    height:98px;
    padding-left:10px;
    padding-top:10px;
    float:;
    overflow-x:;
    overflow-y:;
}

And here's the HTML I used to force an overflow situation:

<p id="footer">

    <img class="pics" alt="Picture 1" title="Banana stand? hahaha" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dx2IF.jpg" />
    <img class="pics" alt="Picture 2" title="That's pretty witty" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/2Gwbn.jpg" />
    <img class="pics" alt="Picture 3" title="TV time" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/LYa29.png" />
    <img class="pics" alt="Picture 1" title="Banana stand? hahaha" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dx2IF.jpg" />
    <img class="pics" alt="Picture 2" title="That's pretty witty" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/2Gwbn.jpg" />
    <img class="pics" alt="Picture 3" title="TV time" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/LYa29.png" /><img class="pics" alt="Picture 1" title="Banana stand? hahaha" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dx2IF.jpg" />
    <img class="pics" alt="Picture 2" title="That's pretty witty" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/2Gwbn.jpg" />
    <img class="pics" alt="Picture 3" title="TV time" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/LYa29.png" />

</p>

The footer paragraph is told to be a certain width, to use a scrollbar for overflow, and to disallow line breaks. So, the pictures are forced to behave as if they're floating, since they're not allowed to drop to the next line.

Hope this helps someone; I know I'm going to use it.

try to add a "width" to #main

#main {
 height: 417px;
 overflow-x: scroll;
 overflow-y: hidden;
 width: auto;
 background-color: #000;
 float: left;
 width:950px;

}