Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread Adam Martin
What are you putting the max-width declaration on? a div for example? adam On Nov 22, 2007 9:17 AM, Tee G. Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought max-width tells the browser: This is the limit of the width you can expand, regardless how big the screen is. But my testing shows that, with a

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread Casey Farrell
But my testing shows that, with a max-width of 60em, a 1680px wide monitor, when a browser is opened in full screen, with fontsize increases, the page just continued expanding until it reaches 1680px full screen. This is because em is a measuring unit relative to the font size of the

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Nov 21, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Adam Martin wrote: What are you putting the max-width declaration on? a div for example? adam I have something like this right now: #wrapper {max-width: 60em; min-width: 600px;margin:0 auto; } #container, #btm_wrap { margin:0 auto;position:relative;text-

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Nov 21, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Jermayn Parker wrote: good example of this is: http://www.456bereastreet.com/ It behaves the same as mine as well as the think vitamine. This is because em is a measuring unit relative to the font size of the page, so as you increase the font size, the

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread Jermayn Parker
good example of this is: http://www.456bereastreet.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/11/2007 9:53:08 am But my testing shows that, with a max-width of 60em, a 1680px wide monitor, when a browser is opened in full screen, with fontsize increases, the page just continued expanding until it

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread David Laakso
I have something like this right now: #wrapper {max-width: 60em; min-width: 600px;margin:0 auto; } #container, #btm_wrap { margin:0 auto;position:relative;text-align:left;} It was this: #wrapper {width: 100%} #container, #btm_wrap { margin:0

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Nov 21, 2007, at 5:05 PM, David Laakso wrote: This site uses min/max width and the behaviour I see is the same as mine. Oops, forgot to post the url in my previous post. http://www.thinkvitamin.com/ (one of the best layout I even seen!) tee

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
The purpose of max-width loses if it can't overruled the ems behavior. It's not a case of max-width overruling ems. Ems is related to font-size which is why it's used for fluid/elastic layouts - it's *supposed* to increase as you increase the text size. If you don't want your layout to

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tee G. Peng wrote: I thought max-width tells the browser: This is the limit of the width you can expand, regardless how big the screen is. But my testing shows that, with a max-width of 60em, a 1680px wide monitor, when a browser is opened in full screen, with fontsize increases, the page