Posted by Ben C on 11/11/06 16:03

On 2006-11-11, Chris <nospam@btinternet.com> wrote:
> I am designing a CSS driven website. Everything works in my layout. I want a
> stretchy percentage driven width to my page. This works fine on 100% width
> but what I want is my layout to stretch with browser widths up 1024 px width
> and stop there. On wide screens it stretches too much making the lines of
> text too wide. How can get it to stretch to 100% at 800 and 1024 but any
> wider to stop at 1024. I have tried putting a 100% div within one with a
> width of 1024 but this doesn't work. Also it needs to work in IE 5.5 and
> above so any hacks would be appreciated!

The max-width property is the obvious way to do this, but I don't think
it works in IE, and I don't know the hacks.

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