CSS, tables, or some other way?

Ok, I have a very dark background on my site, and I want to have a box on top
of the background, spanning about 90% horizontally on the page, with a much
light background, where I put the text. There are probably different ways to do
this.. How would I just put a box with a different color background around
text? How could I use images to do it? (Like, an image of a nice looking
rounded edge on each corner, and then a scaled image bar for each of the sides)

I have a feeling I could do it in CSS but all I'm familiar with is HTML, and I
guess I could use a table, but I think that would get messy..

Any suggestions / help?

Thanks,
- Patrick

Wrap the text in a div. Style the div to have padding to push the text away
from the borders, a background color consistent with your needs, and a
border, e.g.,

<div style="width:300px; background-color:#CFC;padding:15px;border:4px
groove green;">
<p>Here is your text! Here is your text! Here is your text! Here is your
text! Here is your text! Here is your text! </p>
</div>

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"MercuryLime" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Ok, I have a very dark background on my site, and I want to have a box on
top
of the background, spanning about 90% horizontally on the page, with a
much
light background, where I put the text. There are probably different ways
to do
this.. How would I just put a box with a different color background around
text? How could I use images to do it? (Like, an image of a nice looking
rounded edge on each corner, and then a scaled image bar for each of the
sides)

I have a feeling I could do it in CSS but all I'm familiar with is HTML,
and I
guess I could use a table, but I think that would get messy..

Any suggestions / help?

Thanks,
- Patrick