rhythm Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 New to HTML/CSS but learning fast (I hope!)Need to put up a "sales page" fast. You know, those ubiquitous one-page landers with a ridiculously long-scrolling sales pitch, and with a link at the bottom taking you the actual product & purchase pages. Typically, these pages all seem to have the same narrow width, about 7", or maybe it's just a 7" frame/table laid against a full-page-width background, I'm not sure.Anybody know the code for adjusting this width and where it appears in the full code?P.S. As an example, I tried to copy over the complete code from such a sales-page, into a text-editor and saved as an .html file. When I opened the file in a new browser window, all the text, formatting & colors were still the same, but the 7" width of the basic white background (with about 3" of a solid dark color on each side) had expanded out to about 11", only 1" of dark color on each side. Yet when I viewed both pages in source code, I could find no changes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Surround all the content in a <div> element and give it a fixed width. Don't use tables, they're much slower to render than <div> elements and take a lot more markup to write.Or better than that, give the <body> element a width, and put the background of the rest of the page on the <html> element.This is CSS: html { background-color: white; text-align: center;}body { background-color: blue; margin: 0 auto; text-align: left; width: 760px;} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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