[thelist] css rant

wasted a good part of day trying to get a style sheet to work the same in
both netscrape discombobulator and internet exploder...

here's the deal:

i want the entire contents of a page treated as a block, so that's a DIV

i want this div to have width=75% of the window and be right aligned in the
window, so that the excess white space is down the left

and finally, i want all the text, including Hn's and P's, to be
right-aligned within the div

simple, right? something like

   <DIV STYLE=" width: 75% ;
                  align: right;
               text-align: right ; ">

this works in netscape 4 but not ie4 (the most recent of the browsers i
have access to, and the ones i want it to work in -- dunno if later
versions are any better, and don't much care)

i actually had some fun (and learned a lot about inheritance) by separating
these properties into different selectors and applying them to nested divs,
like

  .rt1 { width: 75% ; }
  .rt2 { align: right ; }
  .rt3 { text-align: right ; }

  <DIV CLASS="rt1">
  <DIV CLASS="rt2">
  <DIV CLASS="rt3">
  content of the page
  </DIV></DIV></DIV>

which produced some interesting results depending on the order i nested the
divs...

anyhow, i'm not sure i tried all the various combinations, inline versus
style sheet, selectors versus classes, separate properties or combined...

i'm not really asking for help, just a sympathetic ear

but i would love to hear from anyone who knows how to do it so that *both*
browser show it like i want it...

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</tip>

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rudy limeback
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