Expanding Divs with text - html

Question

I have the following. However, I've been trying to get the blue title area to expand with the outter div and the arrow to be aligned in the middle. I have an outer div set at 25% just so the text wraps.
.breakingNewsRec {
width: 100%;
background: #FFF;
position: relative;
border: solid 2px #6A7791;
}
.breakingNewsRec>.bn-rec {
width: auto;
display: inline-block;
background: #6A7791;
position: relative;
margin-right: 20px;
}
.breakingNewsRec>.bn-rec>h2 {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0;
padding: 0 20px;
line-height: 40px;
font-size: 0.8em;
color: #FFF;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.breakingNewsRec>.bn-rec>span {
position: absolute;
right: -10px;
top: 10px;
height: 0;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 10px 0 10px 10px;
border-color: transparent transparent transparent #6A7791;
}
.breakingNewsTown {
width: 100%;
height: 40px;
background: #FFF;
position: relative;
border: solid 2px #74936A;
}
.breakingNewsTown>.bn-rec {
width: auto;
height: 40px;
display: inline-block;
background: #74936A;
position: relative;
margin-right: 20px;
}
.breakingNewsTown>.bn-rec>h2 {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0;
padding: 0 20px;
line-height: 40px;
font-size: 0.8em;
color: #FFF;
height: 40px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.breakingNewsTown>.bn-rec>span {
width: 0;
position: absolute;
right: -10px;
top: 10px;
height: 0;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 10px 0 10px 10px;
border-color: transparent transparent transparent #74936A;
}
<div style="width: 25%">
<div class="breakingNewsRec">
<div class="bn-rec">
<h2>Recreation News</h2><span></span>
</div>fdsasdf asdif ksd jfkasjdfasj dfla sjdflj
<img src="imgs/slides/slide2.jpg" width="25%">asdfljas dflkjsdf alskdjf asdfl</div>
<div class="breakingNewsTown">
<div class="bn-rec">
<h2>Town News</h2><span></span>
</div>fareveae vasev</div>
</div>

Answer 1

Using display:table-cell this is very easy to accomplish:
#news {
width: 50%;
}
#news .item {
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
}
#news .item h2 {
color: white;
font-size: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
position: relative;
border-color: inherit;
}
#news .item h2:after {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 10px 0 10px 10px;
border-color: transparent;
border-left-color: inherit;
vertical-align: middle;
position: absolute;
left: 100%;
}
#news .item h2,
#news .item div {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
padding: 0 1.5em;
}
.style1 { border-color: #697791 }
.style1 h2 { background: #697791 }
.style2 { border-color: #74936a }
.style2 h2 { background: #74936a }
<div id="news">
<div class="item style1">
<h2>Recreation News</h2>
<div>
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</div>
</div>
<div class="item style2">
<h2>Town News</h2>
<div>
<p>fareveae vasev</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 2

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve, but it sounds like something like this:
which would just be applying width:100%; to .bn-rec
EDIT
Regarding your comment - I think I understand then. How about surrounding the text in a <div> and making both <div> tags display:inline-block; and restricting their width by %. Then increasing the margin of the arrow, also by a % like I did here:
https://jsfiddle.net/030y329m/
Is that closer to what you were thinking?