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Posted by Fred on 05/10/06 22:03
Thanks, JK!!
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> "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.
>
> Followups rationalized.
>
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