I suspect they would rather have an answer that could be given in an interview with a prospective employer, rather than wanting the truth when discussing it privately with you, then a different one later. Even if money is the object you always have to say something such as, feeling you have grown all you can in your current role, that you are searching for a new and exciting challenge. Employers all know money is the elephant in the room, but want to feel people are firstly being motivated by something else. Learning to interview well is as much a skill as doing a decent job once you get there.

You have a few choices: Use Javascript to calculate the actual pixel width of the text after it's been displayed, and set that as the minimum width of the container. Specify the minimum width in em units, as the length of the string. This will actually be wider than the minimum required (unless your titles all consist of a varying number of 'M' characters), but might work just fine if you don't have really long titles and don't mind a bit of extra space. Allow the text to wrap, and specify a minimum width that ensures it won't become so narrow as to look ridiculous (say, 10em). This might break your layout in other ways though. Set the overflow style on the container to hidden. This will just clip any text that runs past the end of the box. Depending on what you're going for, this might work... it's what actually happens in a Win32 window caption, so you'd have authenticity at least. Use a TABLE. This only really helps if you don't force it to be smaller than it needs to be though. But who is the king of all of these folks?

No tool could replace a true artist. ;P