Align contents of col-xs - html

Question

I have a col-xs-8 column as follow:
<div class="col-xs-8">
<div>Every</div>
<select id="update-frequency"
ng-model="retentionSettings.triggers.date.repeat"
ng-disabled="!retentionSettings.triggers.dateStatus">
<option value="day">day</option>
<option value="week">week</option>
<option value="month">month</option>
</select>
<div ng-show="retentionSettings.triggers.date.repeat=='week'">
<div>on</div>
<select id="weekDayDropDown"
ng-model="retentionSettings.triggers.date.weekday"
ng-disabled="!retentionSettings.triggers.dateStatus">
<option ng-repeat="x in weekdaysList()">{{x}}</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
The contents of this column with the above snippet pile up vertically like so:
I'd like to have them horizontally. Im avoiding using more columns inside this one because the spacing wont work for a sentence where the words should be near eachother. How do I achieve this?

Answer 1

The problem you're having is the divs for "Every" and "on" by default have a display: block. You could add custom styling to change the display value to fix this or you could not use div as demonstrated here:
<div class="col-xs-8">
<span>Every</span>
<select id="update-frequency"
ng-model="retentionSettings.triggers.date.repeat"
ng-disabled="!retentionSettings.triggers.dateStatus">
<option value="day">day</option>
<option value="week">week</option>
<option value="month">month</option>
</select>
<span>on</span>
<select id="weekDayDropDown"
ng-model="retentionSettings.triggers.date.weekday"
ng-disabled="!retentionSettings.triggers.dateStatus">
<option ng-repeat="x in weekdaysList()">{{x}}</option>
</select>
</div>