Page width

[Fred the Ted]

I set and publish all of my web pages at 780 pixels width but when viewed on
some browsers the page width is ignored and the page spreads out across the
width of the browser making the design of the page look bad. Is their a way
to add some code that will fix the viewed page width to the 780 wide?

 

[Steve Easton]

What element in the page did you assign the width to?
Can you post a link to the page?

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[Fred the Ted]

Hi Steve,

All I do is set the width of the header, footer and content table to 780
width. I've never noticed this problem before on my own computer but I'm
visiting my sick Father-in-Law in north England, UK and just went to check
something on www.book-holidays-direct.com/index.htm and noticed that the
page fitted the full width of his browser. We use a set-width search box on
all the pages (inside a table) and this really looks bad if the page is
stretched.

 

[Ronx]

With browser at full screen (1024wide x 1280high) The only way I can
make http://www.book-holidays-direct.com/index.htm fit the width of my
browser (and it does that with a wide left margin, and bottom scrollbar)
is to use 125% zoom in IE7 or Opera.
Using other browsers the page width is fixed, even when selecting
largest text from View->Text Size in IE7.
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[Steve Easton]

Looks fine here in a window set at 1024 X 768.
In both IE 7 and FF on XP Pro SP 2.

Centered in the screen just as it should be with no horizontal scroll bar.

Is your Father in laws browser set to ignore CSS?

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[Fred the Ted]

Hi Ron & Steve,

Thank you both for your help on this and it's reassuring to know that my
pages display ok on your browser. It's obviously a problem on my Father in
laws computer as every page is showing at 125% and I can't find a way to
correct this. As this isn't really a Frontpage problem but down to either my
F in Law or IE I just wanted to say thank you for your kind help. I'll be
glad to get back to my own computer and bed on Friday but glad that my old F
in Law is now feeling a little better.