Margins on website?

@vsspAug 10.2006 — #Hai try Macromedia Dreamweaver its very helfull to change the design insert new table very easy.

Its free edition available . so download and install ur sysytem.

@WebJoelAug 10.2006 — #I'm totally new to webdesign and started out using a WYSIWYG editor - hence the poor code. I then moved on to updating the website in Microsoft Notepad and have experimented with image maps etc.

I would like to make a new website sometime in the future however for now I'd rather just tweak the existing one as much as possible.

My basic problem is that I would like to have margins either just one on the right or one on the left and one on the right - restricting the width of the webpage (see example).

http://cars.uk.msn.com/Reviews/article.aspx?cp-documentid=740747

My question is - is this simply a case of inserting a TABLE or is it going to be very difficult?

Here is my website.

www.beechesrecovery.co.uk

Regards

an_trading[/QUOTE]

Assuming you're using a TABLE structure, do this:

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title> New Document </title>

<meta name="Generator" content="" />

<meta name="Author" content="" />

<meta name="Keywords" content="" />

<meta name="Description" content="" />

<style type="text/css">

body, html {margin:0; padding:0; border:0;} /* Re-sets IE to "zero" for these values */

</style>

</head>

<body>

<table style="[B]width:405px; margin:25px auto; [/B]height:400px; border-left:2px solid black; border-right: 2px solid black;">

<tr>

<td>< -- border-left   <em><big><b>some content here, etc.</b></big></em>   border-right -- ><br />

<p>Set a WIDTH first, then establish a margin. "Margin:25px auto" sets this table 25-pixels from the TOP of the screen, and auto-aligns (left/right and bottom, if applicable) the rest. Centered! </p></td>

</tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>

Quick review: set a defined WIDTH first, then give the margin the property of "auto" to subtract the width of the element (here, a TABLE) and dived the remaining width equally to the remaining sides of left & right.

@an_tradingauthorAug 13.2006 — #Thank you very much - just need to tinker with it. Will post up my results maybe.

@felgallAug 13.2006 — #Best NOT to use a table though except for displaying tabular data. You have a lot more flexibility with page layout using stylesheet commands without a table than you do with a table.

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