Is there a way in CSS to enforce a MINIMUM width only of a page? As in I do not want the width to shrink past a certain point, but I want it to grow as much as possible when stretched?
I know I can simply add a spacer gif stretched at 1px hieght to my minimum width, but I was wondering if there is a CSS solution other than using a transparent gif.
Thanks.
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Hi mrichmon,
Actually min-width is fairly easy with IE:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title></title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
width: 700px;
}
html>body
{
width: auto;
min-width: 700px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diem nonummy
nibh euismod tincidunt ut lacreet dolore magna aliguam erat volutpat. Ut wisi
enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tution ullamcorper suscipit loborti
nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis te feugifacilisi. Duis autem do
in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore euf
eugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim quibl
andit praesent luptatum zzril delenit au gue duis dolore te feugat nulla faci</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
An expression would do it:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtm
<html>
<head>
<title> IE "min-width" </title>
<style type="text/css">
#content {
min-width:700px;
width:expression(this.pare
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet lotsa content.
</div>
</body>
</html>
Most browsers will use the min-width, and ignore the width property because only IE understands the expression, which is exactly what we want here ;-)
> is what's called a child selector. Since IE has no idea what it means, it simply disregards it, and thus allows us to feed the normal CSS min-width value to other browsers....
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by: ecupdPosted on 2004-08-31 at 22:17:47ID: 11949187
try this for size:
<div style = "width:100%;background-col
<div style = "width:500px;background-co
Content goes here
</div>
</div>
colors obviously just to show what is going on
Cheers,
dayton