Hey Taco The only problem with your method is that you have to set the left & right positions to a fixed value (10%). I think setting margins on the body (margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%;)would work in a similar way.
In some cases you don't care what the left & right margins look like you just wanted some fixed width content positioning in the middle of the screen. The other method allows a bit more flexibility over the width of your content (e.g. width: 600px;, width: 90%; and width: auto; will all work). In your example you are stuck with the content area being relative to the browser window (i.e. 80% of the available width). Apart from that you're method is fine. Cheers Mark ------------------ Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http://www.gruden.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
