Posted by Neredbojias on 12/03/42 12:00

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:36:25 GMT
dorayme scribed:

> In article <8oqro396d20dbh3b9pdpj0g4gc4h307pa6@4ax.com>,
> XyZed <andy@washerhelp.co.uk> wrote:

>> Is there an accepted different technique these days to deal with wide
>> screens or should a page still be set to take up the whole page?
>

> It is worth using max-width (supported by most browsers including
> IE7 now, but not 6). You can use it on body (there are some
> issues about this), you can *make* a wrapper for the site and use
> it on the wrapper, you can use it on the parts of the site by eg,
> giving the content a max width in px or ems (I recommend em here)
> after having given any side bars widths (in px or ems)

Yeah but too bad it don't work on the human body (and I'm claustrophobic
about girdles.)

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Neredbojias
Riches are their own reward.

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