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11/28 With HTML, I don't like how text runs from the left edge to the right edge
of the browser window. Without using a table with a width that's some
percentage of the screen, how can I let there be a (empty) margin on
both sides of the text? It's easier to read this way. Thanks.
\_ use <div> ... </div> tags to surround the text and use CSS to
specify the location and width of that region. you also could use
CSS to specify margins for the <body> tag, but that will apply
to everything, not just text.
\_ Wow, for a second I saw <booty> rather than <body>. I was trying
to figure out what the hell the <booty> tag did, and when it
got added to the spec....
\_ you're totally right. use css:
body { padding-left: 10%; padding-right: 10%; }
\_ hey that's awesome. now is there a way to fill up that empty
10% on the left side with a solid bar of color, or some
sort of vertically-oriented image?
\_ make another div, set the width to 10% and set the
background-color: orange;
\_ something like
body { padding-left: 10%; padding-right: 10%;
background: orange url(./img.jpg) no-repeat top left;
} might work, experiment. See http://www.csszengarden.com
\_ use css but make sure you test on whatever browsers you want to use.
IE 5 fucks some stuff up, so I test against IE5 and Firebird (which
is pretty similar to IE6 in terms of rendering CSS... but better)
\_ Cool, thanks everyone. -op |
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