Joanne wrote: > I'm one of those people who is usually reluctant to use liquid > design because I don't like text being stretched out to the > 1280 pixels wide so there's text stretching from one side to > the other. > > I was wondering if there was a way in CSS to use liquid design > but set a maximum width of 1024 pixels for the main div, so > regardless of the screen resolution, it will never stretch > past 1024.
There is, but I would rather set that max-width in ems, relative to the font-size, than in pixels. If my mother would be browsing your site, she would probably crank up the font-size to 5 times what you think looks large already. By setting a max-width of 1024 pixels, you are confining the line-length to just a couple of words in the middle of her 1600x1200 23inch screen. So, 'max-width:30em' could be good, you have to try out which width is most comfortable to read. One more problem: IE doesn't understand max-width (or min-width). There is a workaround for it, but it's quite tricky to get it right. http://www.svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie/ explains all about it. -- Els http://locusmeus.com/ http://locusoptimus.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
