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Posted by Arne on 05/09/06 15:47
Once upon a time *Jukka K. Korpela* wrote:
> "Fred" <testing@testing1212mouse.com> wrote:
>
>> On a page with all text, when the lines wrap at the right, some
>> words butt right up to the very edge of the screen. This makes it
>> look like the text runs off the screen, even though it doesn't.
>
> You seem to think that the page is viewed in fullscreen mode. That's
> surely possible, but you should think in terms of a _window_ or, most
> appropriately, _canvas_ (the part of window or paper or other
> presentation area that is allocated for rendering the document).
>
>> I think I have seen code that makes the text take up only a certain
>> amount of the screen -- say 95%. Can someone pls give me a hand on
>> this?
>
> That would be possible, but you really don't want that. In most
> browsers, there is small but usually sufficient padding between the
> page content and the canvas edge. Have you done something to remove
> it?
>
> But if you think the default padding is insufficient, you can use a
> little piece of CSS to suggest something slightly different, e.g.
>
> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 0; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em
> 1.5em; } </style>
>
> This sets the top and and bottom padding to 0.4em, right padding to
> 1em and left padding to 1.5em, which should be (more than)
> sufficient. The em unit roughly corresponds to 2 or 2.5 times the
> average width of a character.
Maybee you also should say that the peace of CSS should be set to the
header section of the page, concidering OP say he is "fairly new" to
HTML and the question is basic :)
So abowe the </head> in the source code is where it should be placed.
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/Arne
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