[thelist] Can't get CSS layout to look correct

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Thu Jun 20 18:10:00 CDT 2002


On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 11:36  pm, Bill Mason wrote:

> Width is the width for the actual content within the CSS 'box'.  Margin,
> padding, and border are added on top of that.

Which is why a nav bar with 5 elements, all sized at 20% won't fit on
the screen. It's non-logical, but correct.

imo width should include padding and border but exclude margin.

Cheers
Martin
(who has a navbar with 5 elements on his site and had to guesstimate it
down a bit.)
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