Hm. I think I understand. But if you use the grp1, grp2 and grp3 layoutPanels, they are basically designed to split the available width. ie if you have three they will each be 33% width etc.. If that's unwanted it may make more sense to leave them in the same layoutPanel but then use CSS to arrange them with float and margin styles?
eg: this would line the HTML modules up left to right, but without splitting the full width.
.splView-pingstatus .panel_row1_col .HTML {
float:left;
margin-left:20px;
}
I'm assuming here that your view is called "pingstatus"
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