Lock the width of a page

Hi All!

I'm having problems with www.suneworld.com
The thing is that I'd like to lock the width of the page, so that it won't
adjust dynamically.

Any CSS people out there that can help me?

Kind regards,
Sune Alexandersen

www.suneworld.com
Skype: sunepune
MSN: suneREMOVE__ME (AT) suneworld (DOT) com

Sune A <sune (AT) NO_SPAM4MEsuneworld (DOT) com> wrote:

I'm having problems with www.suneworld.com
The thing is that I'd like to lock the width of the page, so that it won't
adjust dynamically.

Why would you want to break your site like that?
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"Darin McGrew" <mcgrew (AT) stanfordalumni (DOT) org> wrote

Sune A <sune (AT) NO_SPAM4MEsuneworld (DOT) com> wrote:
I'm having problems with www.suneworld.com
The thing is that I'd like to lock the width of the page, so that it
won't
adjust dynamically.

Why would you want to break your site like that?
--

What do you mean?

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Sune Alexandersen

www.suneworld.com
Skype: sunepune
MSN: suneREMOVE__ME (AT) suneworld (DOT) com

Darin McGrew wrote:

Sune A <sune (AT) NO_SPAM4MEsuneworld (DOT) com> wrote:

I'm having problems with www.suneworld.com
The thing is that I'd like to lock the width of the page, so that it won't
adjust dynamically.

You can set the width of a block element in CSS with
width: <some value>;
However

Why would you want to break your site like that?

this will inevitably lead to a horizontal scroll bar if the browser
window is smaller than <some value>, which is not nice.

A better way is to use
max-width: <some value>;
which allows dynamic adjustment in narrow windows, but sets a maximum
width that will be used in wide windows. This way, you can prevent lines
of text becoming too wide, which is sometimes difficult to read.
Therefore, you best use an 'em' value for <some value>, which makes the
maximum width of you site depemdent on the font size.

Unfortunately, max-width is not supported by IE :-(.

Filip.

Sune A wrote:

Why would you want to break your site like that?

What do you mean?

That forcing a site to conform to a certain width wastes space on large
screens, causes horizontal scrolling on narrow screens and (if you don't
use a font-size relative unit) can produce very nasty results if the font
size is different to what you expect.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Sune A wrote:

Hi All!

I'm having problems with www.suneworld.com

looks ok - perhaps you might consider making the lists of links as real
lists (<ul><li>...)

The thing is that I'd like to lock the width of the page, so that it
won't adjust dynamically.

Bizarre - most people go to great lengths to avoid that and see it fixed
width as a problem

Any CSS people out there that can help me?

methinks you will need a wysinwyg group

--
William Tasso - http://WilliamTasso.com

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design as well as
in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets,
"Sune A" <sune (AT) NO_SPAM4MEsuneworld (DOT) com> wrote:

I'm having problems with www.suneworld.com

Multiposting is evil®.

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In article <CrRrb.27289$jf4.1555535 (AT) news000 (DOT) worldonline.dk> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design, Sune A
<sune (AT) NO_SPAM4MEsuneworld (DOT) com> wrote:

The thing is that I'd like to lock the width of the page, so that it won't
adjust dynamically.

"I have this screw to drive, and I want to use a hammer."

If your requirement is to lock page width, then you're barking up
the wrong tree to do it in HTML. Use something like PDF -- with the
consequent loss of usability -- or accept that page widths _will_
change and do a better design.

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Sometime around Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:01:00 +0100, Filip Hendrickx is
reported to have stated:

This way, you can prevent lines
of text becoming too wide, which is sometimes difficult to read.

You mean your visitors are smart enough to change their screen resolution
to larger than the default, but aren't smart enough to reduce the width of
their browser window?

--
Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

Mark Parnell wrote:

Sometime around Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:01:00 +0100, Filip Hendrickx is
reported to have stated:

This way, you can prevent lines
of text becoming too wide, which is sometimes difficult to read.

You mean your visitors are smart enough to change their screen
resolution to larger than the default, but aren't smart enough to
reduce the width of their browser window?

How would an average visitor intuitively know what the best text width
is? Besides, most pages use fixed-width line-length. So taking the old
adage that visitors spend more time on other sites than yours, reducing
the line-length to a pragmatic and reasonable width makes sense.
Min-width and max-width, or until that works in that major browser IE,
a percentage width, is what I use most often.