Posted by Rincewind on 10/01/05 12:16

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:57:01 -0400, Jud McCranie wrote:

>>OK, then what is the best way to have fixed-width text, with a
>>parameter telling the width of the line (so the browser can adjust the
>>size to get wide lines all on the screen)?
>>---
>
> I should explain what I'm doing. I'm trying to make a program
> generate HTML output for its reports. They all need fixed-width
> fonts. Some of the reports range from 75 to 132 characters wide. I
> want the recipient of the HTML file to be able to view the file
> without any horizontal scrolling, and also to have it nearly fill the
> width of the screen, no matter what screen resolution the recipient
> has, etc. I've found out about setting the font size in <P style
> ...>, but I don't know how to make it be the appropriate size. (<pre>
> is listed as depreciated, but I don't know what replaces it.)
>
> How can I do that?
> ---
> Replace you know what by j to email

If I understand correctly, I think what you need to do is put the text
inside a <div></div> with a width set to 95%(nearly full screen) this way
when the browser window is resized or with lower resolution screens the
text will flow within the <div></div>.

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