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Hi Sam,
> the (default) setting of width:auto should make the box only large enough
to contain it's elements, right?
This is not correct - when the width is set to auto the box will fill out
to until it is limited by margins or the parent container - and if the
margins are auto then they will shrink to 0
So the behaviour you are seeing is what it should be for a block level
element - on the other hand if you convert it to an inline element then it
will function as you expect - i.e. only fill out to the lenght of the text.
To make and element display inline use: "display: inline;"
Cheers,
Mark
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