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Posted by Tim Streater on 11/15/07 17:12
In article <a9ed4$473c781e$40cba7a7$8194@NAXS.COM>,
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
> Tim Streater wrote:
> > I have an element that I would like to be centred on the page, so I use:
> >
> > margin-left: auto;
> > margin-right: auto;
> >
> > This is fine but under some conditions the element then expands to fill
> > the whole width of the window (variable content).
> >
> > I would like to restrict its expansion to within (say) a few pixels of
> > the sides of the window. Can I do this with CSS?
>
> width: 99%;
This appears to *force* the element (a table) to occupy 99% of the
width. I want to *limit* it to that.
I have:
table.outerbox
{
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 20px;
border-width: 4px;
border-color: black;
border-style: solid;
}
and then:
<table class="outerbox">
rows, cols
</table>
Thx - tim
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