Posted by dorayme on 04/05/06 05:55

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"gtp1013" <gprobst@maptech-inc.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the response. That makes sense,

What makes sense? It would be helpful for you to quote the bits
you are referring to.


> Essentially, what I'm trying to accomplish is setting the "main" DIV to
> a width of 100% unless the browser width falls below 800px, at which
> point I would like the DIV widths to be 800px. Is this possible?

What is possible, in many non IE browsers and maybe in IE7
coming, is to set a max width for some elements,

div.dontBeTooBig {max-width: 800px; border:1px red solid}

and a minimum one (that should then trigger scrollbars below 800
wide)

div.dontBeTooSmall {min-width:800px; border:1px red solid}

Try these and see the effects, watch the horizontal scrollbar,
put lots of text in the divs and watch the wrap, and see the
borders (to see the extent of the actual div). Do this in
Firefox, for example.

BTW, talking about scrollbars, I do think your design needs a
small rethink. It is true that it is practical to have a longish
page sometimes, even for a home page. But give the viewer
something whole to look at as it loads and in a 800 by 600
window. Your main MapTech globe image is too big, one sees only
some of it (not the best) and this is a very different thing from
seing only some of a page (not the worst).

Clear as mud?

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dorayme

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