Looks like the H4 header is styled, not the container, which is getting a width of 998px.
980px width + 16px from padding + 2px from border? Greg -----Original Message----- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of John Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 2:46 PM To: CSS-Discuss Subject: [css-d] child width exceeding parents' ?! at this page the bar that says new clothes at doubletake is set to max-width:980px and width: 100%, yet it exceeds the width of it's parent which is 980 how can this be? Thanks for clues! John http://coffeeonmars.com/W200/test/DTake_Index.html ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/