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 reaches 1680px 
full screen.

This is because em is a measuring unit relative to the font size of the

page, so as you increase the font size, the size of 1 em increases as 
well, and therefore your max-width of 60em gets larger and larger.



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 just continued expanding until it reaches 1680px

> full screen. If I drag the screen to the second monitor, it keeps 
> expanding.  If I make the screen smaller to 900px, then expansion
stop 
> there.
>
> Am I missing somthing?
>
> I tried setting a max-width of 1024px and 60em width , it doesn't 
> work, my test shows that FF and Safari ignore the max-width.
>
> tee
>
>
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