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Old 03-27-2009, 12:34 AM Not sure if I am floating or sinking !
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I am very new to this web design, I have been using a WYSIWYG editor and was quite pleased with the results until I got my new PC which has a great resolution of in the region 1400*1200 ish as the default screen resolution.
I designed my web pages on a laptop with 1024x768 resoltion.
The results can be seen here www.amdivers.co.uk
I have tried absolute positoning in a previous thread and was way of the mark I was using the wrong syntax all together !

I have however recently been reading and studying CSS as this is a great tool and reduces the web pages significantly. I have recently created a “test” web page here
http://amdivers.co.uk/AM%20Divers%20images/TESTWeb/index5.html with Floats
and
http://amdivers.co.uk/AM%20Divers%20images/TESTWeb/index3.html with a kinda of left float I was going to try and play with.

The index5 version works well on a large screen but I get a large blank space in the middle. Also as you reduce the size of the screen down the right column, the the middle column drop.
Can you point me in the write direction please ?
I want to have a fixed width page that will spread to the size of a larger monitor or shrink but stay fixed so the overflow is lost and the scroll bar appears.
Is this possible ?
I can attatched code if needed and CSS used for two pages.

Thanks for your help in advance.
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Old 03-27-2009, 09:57 AM Re: Not sure if I am floating or sinking !
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I want to have a fixed width page that will spread to the size of a larger monitor or shrink but stay fixed so the overflow is lost and the scroll bar appears.
The best way to achieve this is to specify your widths, margins and padding in percentages. Liquid layouts are a challenge, and you have some decisions to make.

Min/max width/height is NOT supported by IE6, so you're going to have to compensate for that with conditional comments and separate IE-only stylesheets.
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