Posted by James A on 05/09/07 07:35

"BootNic" <bootnic@bounce.earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>> James A <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>> news: MR50i.7538$H4.1595@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to create a 10px wide margin on the left and right of a
>> page using CSS. Those margins need to be 10px whatever the width of
>> the page. Firefox and Opera work fine, but in IE6 the right hand side
>> has no margin and a horizontal scroll bar appears as the page is a
>> little wider than the window (10px maybe). My test page is here:
>> http://www.felston.com/temp/test.html
[snip]
>
> <style type="text/css">
> html,body {
> margin: 0;
> padding: 0;
> }
> #wrapper {
> background:#CCCCCC;
> margin:0 10px 0 10px;
> }
> #content {
> margin: 0;
> padding: 0;
> height: 600px;
> }
> </style>
>
> --
> BootNic Tuesday, May 08, 2007 6:50 PM
>
> When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are
> broken.
> *Benjamin Disraeli*
>

That's superb! Many thanks BootNic. Working perfectly.

--
James

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