[BNM] [BMN] CSS conundrum. With pictures.

[Alex]

you want them to float left if there's lots of them but be centered if 
there's only a few?

*a bit confused*

 

Nick Taylor wrote:
> Ok - css query. I thought these had gone out of fashion, but apparently not.
>
>
> How... do you get a load of icons to float left inside a centrally 
> floated thing? So if there's a load of them that stack up politely, and 
> if there's only a couple, they sit in the middle.
>
> eg:
>
> http://www.weirdsky.com/icons1.gif
>
> See... they float left
>
>
> http://www.weirdsky.com/icons2.gif
>
> but when there's only a few of them they go to the centre.
>
>
> What we're doing at the moment is wrapping the whole lot in a table... 
> which automatically adjusts its width to be the same as what it's 
> containing. Which works like magic (for that is what it is) until you've 
> got a slow connection... then everything turns into a long column.
>
> Note that the height of the containing thing is dictated by the number 
> of icons... so no absolute positioning etc.
>
>
> How the feck do you do that then?
>
> There must be a sensible solution etc.
>
>
>
>
> n
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