Joanne wrote Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:09:26 +1100:
 
> 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.

Why 1024px? What about when 1024px is less than half the width of your
visitor's screen? Why not instead set your widths in characters rather
than px? That way, line lengths are maintained regardless of your
visitor's font size. Widths will only get high when font size is large.
Basics here:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/widths-em-v-px.html
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/fflinelength.html
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