On 06/07/19 12:42 (GMT-0500) Janet Chang apparently typed: > In the meantime, I'm also working on fixing a display issue for our main > school site. I am trying to set the text width in our content div to only > go 80% across since at 100% the length per line is uncomfortably long to read.
> I've noticed however, that on certain pages that have only a list of links > the text is squished in, for example: > http://www3.law.northwestern.edu/news/newsevents_archive.html > http://www3.law.northwestern.edu/curriculum/coursecatalog/term.cfm > This only happens in Firefox, not IE. > It may be hard to read the source for our pages since the code is pretty > messy and not all XHTML/CSS (designed before I came in), but this is the > styling I'm trying for the content div: > #content { > /*margin: 0;*/ /*old text width*/ > padding: 10px 10px 5px 20px; > margin: 0 auto 10px 0; /*new text width*/ > width: 80%; /*new text width*/ > } > Is there something I'm doing wrong or forgot to add? You'll get the width you want by specifying in characters instead of a % of some random unknown width. e.g, if you want about 96 characters maximum overall width, substitute in your #content for 80%, 48em. These further explain, illustrate and tutor: http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/text.htm http://www.webstyleguide.com/type/lines.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/widths-em-v-px.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/fflinelength.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Sites/dlviolin.html http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=DB750&print=true -- "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord', and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 3:23 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.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/
