Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:08:04 -0500
From: cj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Pike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Subject: Re: [css-d] borders, text, and wide tables
this probably isn't what you want, but would it be possible to simply
let your main page be as wide as the viewport, but no wider, then let
your tables overflow to the right?
If I remove the "display:table" from the #body in the default.css file,
what is produced is a webpage in which the text fits nicely within a
non-stretched body. The border and background colour are similarly
unstretched. [quick aside: I'm talking about behaviour in Firefox;
MSIE seems to behave the same with or without the "display:table"
setting]. The "problem" though is that the border then cuts through
the wide tables, and the background colour similarly "ends" part-way
across the table. Yes, I know that this is largely an issue of
aesthetics, but isn't that at least part of the point behind css?
- David.
if your arguement is that it would look pretty stupid (and admittedly
yeah it does), i think it's pretty silly to have me think i'm missing
text to the right when i scroll horizontally but see nothing, only to
find out later in the page that a table is there.
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