Re: [css-d] Wrapper DIV vs. BODY

2012-06-22 Thread Kyle Sessions
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, mem talofo.l...@gmail.com wrote: I'm taking the body element as the viewport area and the wrapper as the content container area That's how I usually interpret it. I might want my content to have an explicit width, but I'd like an unlimited-width repeating

Re: [css-d] Wrapper DIV vs. BODY

2012-06-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Kyle Sessions ksessi...@bepress.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, mem talofo.l...@gmail.com wrote: I'm taking the body element as the viewport area and the wrapper as the content container area That's how I usually interpret it. I might want my

Re: [css-d] Wrapper DIV vs. BODY

2012-06-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/22/12 10:30 AM, Kyle Sessions wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, mem talofo.l...@gmail.com wrote: I'm taking the body element as the viewport area and the wrapper as the content container area That's how I usually interpret it. I might want my content to have an explicit width,

Re: [css-d] Wrapper DIV vs. BODY

2012-06-22 Thread Kyle Sessions
I'm taking the body element as the viewport area and the wrapper as the content container area That's how I usually interpret it. I might want my content to have an explicit width, but I'd like an unlimited-width repeating background image. So body gets the background image and

[css-d] Wrapper DIV vs. BODY

2012-06-21 Thread David Hucklesby
What benefit is there to a wrapper DIV on a web page? It seems to me that the BODY element serves all that's needed for styling a page. It can have a width; can be centered with auto side margins; can have its own background; has a new block-formatting context; and elements can be positioned

Re: [css-d] Wrapper DIV vs. BODY

2012-06-21 Thread mem
On Jun 21, 2012, at 18:35 , David Hucklesby wrote: What benefit is there to a wrapper DIV on a web page? It seems to me that the BODY element serves all that's needed for styling a page. It can have a width; can be centered with auto side margins; can have its own background; has a new

Re: [css-d] Wrapper DIV vs. BODY

2012-06-21 Thread mem
On Jun 21, 2012, at 18:47 , mem wrote: Perhaps I'm not seeing it properly, but until know, I'm taking the body element as the viewport area and the wrapper as the content container area; [SIC] now instead of know. (and possible other issues as well);

Re: [css-d] Wrapper DIV vs. BODY

2012-06-21 Thread David Laakso
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:35 PM, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.com wrote: What benefit is there to a wrapper DIV on a web page? trimmed Cordially, David Dunno. But what comes to mind is a situation that calls for for the need to separate an object from the body/html.. For example: a single