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Inline divs are not lining up in a row

It's my understanding that simply adding display:inline to divs with a relative position will line them up (left to right), somewhat like float:left. I've tried both approaches but they haven't worked.
Below is an example of my last attempt, using inline displaying. I want all three segments to line up from left to right, but they're displaying just like unstyled divs.
function showProfile() {
var profile = document.getElementById('userprofile');
profile.style.opacity = 0.8;
var profileImage = document.getElementById('userimage');
profileImage.style.opacity = 0.8;
}
.profile {
top: 68px;
background-color: #424755;
color: #dddddd;
width: 100%;
min-height: 50px;
opacity: 0;
position: fixed;
font: 16px"Tahoma";
}
.miniProfileImage {
opacity: 0;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
.miniBioSegment {
display: inline;
margin-right: 5px;
width: 33%;
}
<div class="profile" id="userprofile">
<div class="miniBioSegment">
<img class="miniProfileImage" id="userimage" src="http://dummyimage.com/100x100/000088/ffffff.png&text=Profile+image">
</div>
<div id="miniBio" class="miniBioSegment">
This is basic information about this person that you clicked.
</div>
<div id="miniQuote" class="miniBioSegment">
This is a tag line from the person that you clicked.
</div>
</div>
<button onclick="showProfile()">View Profile</button>

You should use inline-block instead of inline for more control. I used a width of 33%-2px because the browser rounds the div's size up therefore leading to overflowing. Your 5px margins weren't helping with the sum either.
function showProfile() {
var profile = document.getElementById('userprofile');
profile.style.opacity = 0.8;
var profileImage = document.getElementById('userimage');
profileImage.style.opacity = 0.8;
}
.profile {
top: 68px;
background-color: #424755;
color: #dddddd;
width: 100%;
min-height: 50px;
opacity: 0;
position: fixed;
font: 16px"Tahoma";
}
.miniProfileImage {
opacity: 0;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
display:inline-block;
}
.miniBioSegment{
display: inline-block;
width: calc(33% - 2px);
vertical-align:middle;
}
<div class="profile" id="userprofile">
<div class="miniBioSegment">
<img class="miniProfileImage" id="userimage" src="http://dummyimage.com/100x100/000088/ffffff.png&text=Profile+image">
</div>
<div id="miniBio" class="miniBioSegment">
This is basic information about this person that you clicked.
</div>
<div id="miniQuote" class="miniBioSegment">
This is a tag line from the person that you clicked.
</div>
</div>
<button onclick="showProfile()">View Profile</button>

CSS should target the ID's and use float:left. See example
.profile {
top: 68px;
background-color: #424755;
color: #dddddd;
width: 100%;
min-height: 50px;
position: fixed;
font: 16px"Tahoma";
}
.miniProfileImage {
float:left;
max-width: 33%;
height: 100px;
}
#miniBio {
float:left;
margin-right: 5px;
width: 33%;
}
#miniQuote {
float:left;
margin-right: 5px;
width: 33%;
}
<div class="profile" id="userprofile">
<div class="miniBioSegment">
<img class="miniProfileImage" id="userimage" src="http://dummyimage.com/100x100/000088/ffffff.png&text=Profile+image">
</div>
<div id="miniBio" class="miniBioSegment">
This is basic information about this person that you clicked.
</div>
<div id="miniQuote" class="miniBioSegment">
This is a tag line from the person that you clicked.
</div>
</div>

I'm asking myself, why do you have position:absolute;?
To make it work, I have just added display: flex; justify-content: space-between; to the .profileclass.
Remove the position, and try adding the last two lines.
See example here: http://sandbox.clickadelic.de/demos/lineup.html

With the divs set to display: inline; they will only line up horizontally if the total length of the divs does not exceed the container's width.
And width, height of inline elements is ignored, you should use display: inline-block; instead. The wrapping behavior is the same as above.
Also browser renders whitespace among inline* elements, which is about 4px, see How to remove the space between inline-block elements? for more details.
In your example, there are 3 divs, if you want them to be equal width, you can do:
.profile {
font-size: 0; /*remove whitespace*/
background: silver;
}
.miniBioSegment {
font-size: 16px; /*reset font-size*/
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top; /*vertical alignment*/
width: 33.3333%;
}
However, the image object in the first div is set to 100px, I think you would prefer that div to be the same width too, and each one takes 50% of the rest space for other two divs. Examples:
1. Inline block
jsFiddle
.profile {
font-size: 0;
background: silver;
}
.miniBioSegment {
font-size: 16px;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
border: 1px dotted red;
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 100px;
}
#miniBio, #miniQuote {
width: calc((100% - 100px) / 2);
}
.miniProfileImage {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
display: block;
}
2. Float
jsFiddle
.profile {
background: silver;
}
.profile:after {
content: "";
display: table;
clear: both;
}
.miniBioSegment {
float: left;
border: 1px dotted red;
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 100px;
}
#miniBio, #miniQuote {
width: calc((100% - 100px) / 2);
}
.miniProfileImage {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
display: block;
}
3. CSS table
jsFiddle
.profile {
background: silver;
display: table;
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
}
.miniBioSegment {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: top;
border: 1px dotted red;
}
#miniBio, #miniQuote {
width: 50%;
}
.miniProfileImage {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
display: block;
}
4. Flexbox
jsFiddle
.profile {
background: silver;
display: flex;
}
.miniBioSegment {
border: 1px dotted red;
}
#miniBio, #miniQuote {
flex: 1;
}
.miniProfileImage {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
display: block;
}

Positioning a div at specific fixed place irrespective of zoom and scroll

I have a header with fixed position and inside header I have navigation links but when I zoom into browser links are thrown out of window to right. How can I make the navigation links fixed to 50px right no matter I zoom in or out.
jsfiddle here I don't want to change properties of header.
.header {
width: 100%;
min-width: 500px;
position: fixed;
background: red;
height: 60px;
}
.navlinks {
float: right;
margin-right: 50px;
width: 30px;
margin-top: 4px;
height: 20px;
background: black;
}
<div class="header">hello
<div class='navlinks'></div>
</div>

You've already set the fixed position header to width:100% so the min-width:500px is unnecessary.
Remove that and the issue is solved.
.header {
width: 100%;
position: fixed;
background: red;
height: 60px;
}
.navlinks {
float: right;
margin-right: 50px;
width: 30px;
margin-top: 4px;
height: 20px;
background: black;
}
<div class="header">hello
<div class='navlinks'></div>
</div>
JSfiddle Demo

Positioning z-index does not work as expected

I cannot position info-pop-title on top of bar-header as you can see from my current code the text "TEST----" is visible but under the bar-header element.
http://jsfiddle.net/uvh4ymh9/
Could you point me out what am I doing wrong and how to fix it
PS: I cannot change structure for the HTML, only CSS solution
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<style>
.bar-header, .bar-footer {
position: fixed;
left: 0px;
width: 1280px;
z-index: 1;
background-color: rgba(50,50,50,0.5);
text-align: center;
}
.bar-header {
top: 0px;
height: 60px; /* safearea top 25 + content 20 + space bottom 15*/
}
.bar-header h1 {
position: fixed;
top: 25px; /* safearea top 25 */
left: 25px; /* safearea left */
font-size: 20px; /* content */
}
.bar-footer {
top: 670px;
height: 50px; /* safearea bottom 20 + content 20 + space top 10 */
font-size: 20px; /* content */
}
.bar-footer > ul {
position: fixed;
top: 680px; /* footer top 670 + space top 10*/
left: 1150px;
}
.bar-footer > ul li {
float: left;
}
.bar-footer li:nth-child(1) span {
color: blue;
}
#scene-main {
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 1280px;
height: 720px;
/*background: #ffffff url("/auth/assets/tv-safearea-transparent.png") no-repeat left;*/
background-color: darkgrey;
}
#btn-up, #btn-down {
position: fixed;
left: 1230px;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
background-color: yellow;
outline: 1px solid black;
z-index: 200;
}
#btn-up {
top: 0px;
}
#btn-down {
top: 50px;
}
#content {
position: fixed;
top: 0px; /* header */
}
.content-section:first-child {
margin-top: 60px; /* header height content does not go under header */
}
.content-section {
background-color: lightgray;
outline: 1px solid black;
width: 1280px;
}
/* Content sizes */
.content-snippet {
height: 360px; /* 1 slots */
width: 1280px;
background-color: lightblue;
outline: 1px solid green;
}
.content-snippet:nth-child(even) {
background-color: lightcoral;
}
.content-section h2 {
position: relative;
top: 30px; /**avoid to go under the header bar*/
}
.active {
background-color: violet !important;
}
.snippet-pop-info {
position: fixed;
top: 640px; /*430 = final position as visible / 670 = final position as not visible */
width: 1280px;
height: 240px;
background-color: darkblue;
opacity: 1;
color: white;
}
.snippet-pop-info ul {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 1155px;
width: 100px;
}
.snippet-pop-info ul li {
width: 100px;
}
.snippet-pop-info .rating {
position: absolute;
top: 65px;
left: 25px;
unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
direction: rtl;
}
.snippet-pop-info .rating > span {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
width: 20px;
}
.snippet-pop-info .rating > span:hover:before,
.snippet-pop-info .rating > span:hover ~ span:before {
content: "\2605";
position: absolute;
}
#info-pop-title {
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 250px;
z-index: 1;
font-size: 30px;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
}
#info-pop-description {
position: absolute;
overflow: hidden; /* hide content that does not fit in the columns*/
top: 25px;
left: 300px; /* TEST */
height: 80px;
width: 800px;
font-size: 20px;
-webkit-column-count: 2;
-webkit-column-gap: 10px;
column-count: 2;
column-gap: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="viewport">
<div id="scene-main" class="scene" style="">
<div class="bar-header"><h1>ChannelLive logo</h1></div>
<div id="page">
<div id="content">
<div id="snippet-cnt-0" class="content-snippet">
0
<div class="snippet-pop-info" style="top: 720px;">
<h1 id="info-pop-title" style="word-wrap: break-word;">TEST-----------------</h1>
<div class="rating"><span>☆</span><span>☆</span><span>☆</span><span>☆</span><span>☆</span></div>
<div id="info-pop-description" style="word-wrap: break-word;">null</div>
<ul>
<li class="focusable" data-href="movie-play">Play</li>
<li class="focusable" data-href="movie-details">Details</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

It's not clear what you're trying to accomplish, but I can make Chrome work like Firefox by getting rid of the
position: fixed;
style from #content. Whether that will work in the larger context of your layout, I don't know, but the problem is that the way z-index works is weird and complicated, and involves not just individual fixed elements but also any fixed parents they might have.
edit — oh also, set the z-index of .snippet-pop-info to 2. Here is an updated version of your fiddle.

Make your
.bar-header, .bar-footer{
z-index:0;
}
This will do the trick. Since your z-index for .bar-header and .info-pop-title are the same.

Add z-index in your content div
#content
{
position:fixed;
top:0;
z-index:1;
}

I'm afraid you can't make it work with the way your html is nested.
The element you want to pull on top to cover the rest is located in the main container while your second element is isolated in the header. If you want to bring your info-pop-title there you'll have to change the z-index of your #page element, which will cover everything.
The only thing I see you can achieve with this structure would be to position your diverse containers relatively and change the css of your info-pop-title with a negative margin, position absolutely this time.

Problems with positioning and z-index

I'm trying to have the menu overlap content, but as of now it moves the content box away.
I've already tried the position: relative trick, but the problem doesn't seem to go away. The solution is probably something really obvious, but I need help finding it.
EDIT: Sorry, forgot to add, the box will also be resizable() so I'm trying to avoid absolute positioning.
EDIT2: nevermind, right:5px fixes that problem
JSFiddle
HTML
<div class="box">
<div class="top">
<div class="icon"></div>
<div class="menubox">
<ul class="menu">
<li>Menu Option 1
</li>
<li>Menu Option 2
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>content goes here</p>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>content goes here</p>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.box {
width: 400px;
height: 200px;
margin: 5px;
float: left;
background: LightGray;
border: 1px solid DarkGray;
overflow: hidden;
}
.top {
width: 100%;
height: 25px;
background: lightblue;
}
.icon {
float: right;
background: red;
height: 15px;
width: 15px;
margin: 5px;
}
.menubox {
float: right;
background: yellow;
position: relative;
z-index:100;
width: 150px;
}
.content {
width: 180px;
height: 165px;
margin: 0px 10px 47px;
float: left;
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
display: block;
background:DarkGray;
}
li {
list-style-type: none;
text-decoration: none;
}
ul {
margin:none;
padding:none;
}
JS/jQuery
$('.icon').mouseover(function () {
$(".menu").show();
}); //toggle menu on hover
$(".menu").mouseleave(function () {
$(this).hide();
});

use position: absolute?
fiddle
.menubox {
float: right;
background: yellow;
position: relative;
z-index:100;
width: 150px;
top: 25px;
right: 5px;
position: absolute;
}
.box {
width: 400px;
height: 200px;
margin: 5px;
float: left;
background: LightGray;
border: 1px solid DarkGray;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative; /* add this */
}
Edit: better position

The yellow menubox needs to be positioned absolutely so it does not interfere with the flow of the document (take up space).
Give it a position:absolute;
Furthermore, the .box element needs to have a position:relative so the menu is positioned relative to that box.
Updated your fiddle for you:
http://jsfiddle.net/CcVnL/11/

Check the below link i have updated your code.
"jsfiddle.net/CcVnL/9/"

jQuery div slide to left on hover a div/nextarrow

I am trying to implement something like this http://www.jamieoliver.com (slider -> arrow on hover)
I have done this much http://jsfiddle.net/PXLJG/5/ In the jsfiddle script? The arrow must be stand. The div.class=content 'Text next article' must be slide to left next to the arrow.
$('.holdingbox').hover(function () {
$('.rightbox').stop().animate({
width : '120px'
}, 400)
}, function () {
$('.rightbox').stop().animate({
width : '-0'
}, 400)
});
HTML:
<div class="holdingbox">
<a href="#">
<div class="margined">
<div class="rightbox">
<div class="content"><p>Következő cikk</p></div>
</div>
<div class="leftbox"> > </div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
CSS:
div {
display : inline-block;
}
.holdingbox {
position: relative;
top: 0;
margin-left: 100px;
}
.leftbox {
position: absolute;
display: inline-block;
height: 36px;
background-color: #ac193d;
color: #FFF;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 1px;
}
.holdingbox a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #FFF;
display: block;
}
.leftbox img {
margin: 0 auto;
margin-top: 10px;
}
.rightbox {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
overflow: hidden;
width: 0;
height: 50px;
vertical-align: top;
margin-right: 0;
}
.rightbox a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #FFF;
}
.content {
width: 120px;
position: absolute;
background-color: #ac193d;
height: 38px;
text-align: center;
left: 0;
top: 0;
right: 0;
color: #FFF;
}
.content p {
margin-top: 8px;
}

just add position: absolute; right: 0; in .rightbox class.
.rightbox {
display: inline-block;
height: 50px;
margin-right: 0;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
vertical-align: top;
width: 0;
}
Working here - http://jsfiddle.net/PXLJG/7/

I tried to fix up the code you've already got but it needed some major rehauling so I've just re-done it all.
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/t2z9Q/
CSS
.container {
width: 120px;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
color: white;
}
.container .content {
width: 100px;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
left: 120px;
float:left;
z-index: 99;
background: #ac193d;
}
.container .arrow {
float: right;
width: 20px;
position: relative;
color: black;
z-index: 100;
background: #ac193d;
}
JS
$('.arrow').hover(function() {
$('.container .content').stop().animate({left: '0'}, 400)
}, function() {
$('.container .content').stop().animate({left: '120px'}, 400)
});
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="content">Next Article</div>
<div class="arrow">></div>
</div>
This way you lose a lot of the jargon html & css that isn't really required but still get the same effect.

You are applying inline-block style on all divs. Please revert to normal display of block.
div{
display: block;
}
or just remove it as the default display is block
http://jsfiddle.net/PXLJG/8/
That should solve your core issue.
Now if you want to show the arrow to the left of the text div, remove absolute position on the arrow.
Now you will be having a whitespace between the inline-block elements, that is the arrow and the text. To remove it easily remove the whitespace between those two div in HTML
http://jsfiddle.net/PXLJG/18/
For something exactly like as in the website, you can try positioning both arrow and text using absolute positioning and anchoring them with their right property.
This way, as the width increases it will expand from right to left.
http://jsfiddle.net/PXLJG/20/