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Getting white space on left when using 100% width?

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Jul 05.2004

I am a complete noob to CSS…well about 1 day into my CSS career..lol

I have the following code to test setting up a layout that has a header, 3 columns and a footer. Not that this code does that but as you can see from the code that is where I will be going.

[CODE]<STYLE TYPE=”text/css”>

#header {
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;
width:100%;
background:#FFF;
height:60px;
border:1px solid #000;
}

</STYLE>
</head>

<body>

<div id=”header”> <h1>LAYOUT TECHNIQUES: 3 columns, the holy grail</h1></div>

</body>
</html>[/CODE]

When I preview the page there is about a 10px gap on the right hand side of the screen. It is really frustrating me as I was thinking I could design my site without tables and get it to cover 100% width.

Does anybody know how to correct this? Am I doing something wrong?

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@DaveSWJul 05.2004 — you need to set the body not to have any margins or padding:

body {

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

}

Or is that part of the code you haven't posted?
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@bradlesauthorJul 05.2004 — Thanks a heap.

That fixed it.
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@DaveSWJul 05.2004 — ?
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