Lea,
i see the same effect in both firefox and safari - a white strip to the
left of the blue background?
in both Firefox and in safari.
Sorry, no, that's not where the problem is. I placed the left edge of
the blue background arbitrarily, just to display the issue, so you'll
have to excuse the bodgy look of it. The problem is on the right hand
side.
I note your css doesnt validate, and it seems to be on the background
line.
That's because I've used an IE PC hack to emulate max-width. It's the
only thing that shows an error.
I've never seen em units used for offseting a background in css.
Perhaps it isnt valid to do so?
Same problem shows up with absolute measurements (px) as well, so I
don't think it's a validation issue. I used the em measurement to
indicate that I'm wanting the left hand margin to stretch with an
increase in text size. (At present the layout is incomplete in this
regard.)
Thanks for the response, though.
I'm disappointed with Safari's handling of this -- and very surprised!
-Hugh
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