You are creating a 760px width for both html and body, which means that there is no where else for it to get larger.
Try this <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- html { width: 100%; height: 100%; border: thin solid black; /* take out after you look at it */ margin: 0; padding: 0; } body{ width: 760px; margin: 0 auto; height: 100%; /* Just so you can see the height */ border: thin solid blue /* again take out after you look at it */ } --> </style> </head> <body> </body> </html> Sandra Clark ============================== http://www.shayna.com Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility -----Original Message----- From: Matt Quackenbush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 2:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CSS Horizontal Centering in IE7 Sandra, I have the width in there; was just posting minimal code since I know how much I hate to wade thru a bunch of superflous code. Here is the actual CSS rule as written: html, body { margin: 0 auto; text-align: center; width: 760px; min-width: 760px; } Thanks, Matt On 12/11/06, Sandra Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You need a width in there. > > Another CSS Rule > > Everything needs to be 100% of the parent, in any case where stuff > isn't defined, CSS will always make margin-right large enough to > accommodate 100% of the parent. In this case the parent is html. > If using auto, then whatever the difference is will be split between > margin left and margin right. Providing that is, that width is > declared. > > body{ > width: 80%; > margin: 0 auto; > } > Also equivalent > > body{ > width: 80%; > margin: 0 10%; > } > > > Sandra Clark > ============================== > http://www.shayna.com > Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:263591 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
