controlling space on wide screen monitors

[Dkleinen]

I've just written a couple of simple websites with just HTML and I've noticed that the browsers stretch the content to fill the widescreen monitors. This w3schools page is also stretched all the way across my big screen.How can I control the width, so the page maintains the same look that I had before widescreen monitors, which would leave blank spaces on the sides?

[real_illusions]

Use widths in pixels rather than percentages on an outer container.Instead of.outer {width:100%;}use.outer {width:900px;}for example.

[thescientist]

or, if you have no width set, but are using a div, know that a div will automatically widen to fill the width of its parent container. In which case, do like real illusions said and put a pixel width on your div, or make it a value less than 100%.