What CSS should I use to create a series of horizontal, non-wrapping blocks?

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Published on 2010-06-01T09:21:28Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 9:23 UTC
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I have a set of dynamically generated content - anywhere between 1 and about 25 blocks (each of which I want to be about 250px wide.

Clearly, this can run off-screen, but that's fine since my design allows for horizontal scrolling (using jQuery - I don't want the browser to do it with its own scroll bars).

So what CSS - cross-browser - is the best approach? Floats seem to wrap unreliably, and the dynamic nature of the content which changes frequently through ajax calls - means that recalculating the container width is not very practical.

Other CSS-based option?

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