Posted by Toby A Inkster on 09/28/39 12:00

XyZed wrote:

> Back in the day I was convinced by a core of purists to design a fluid
> site that worked on all formats and used only css for styling.

These are still good principles in general.

> I particularly have a worry about my 100% width because of the
> proliferation of wide screen monitors. My site takes up the entire
> length of large wide screens and the text stretches al the way across
> it.

You could try using CSS max-width:

BODY { max-width: 45em; }

Adjust so that the max-width is not at your ideal width, but at the widest
possible "comfortable" width.

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