[pmwiki-users] Maximum page-width in Katskin

Kathryn Andersen kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org
Tue Aug 22 02:27:32 CDT 2006


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:47:26AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> On 22/08/06, Kathryn Andersen <kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > There is a max-width property in CSS (which, unfortunately, IE does not
> > recognise, but IE is broken and stupid).  So, you can set in your
> > local.css file something like this:
> >
> > body {
> >         max-width: 900px;
> > }
> >
> > Or perhaps
> >
> > #wikibody {
> >         max-width: 900px;
> > }
> 
> IE may be a pain, but a lot of folk are using it.
> So it may be good to use special rules for IE.
> IE treats the width property as max-width,
> and you can make a rule for IE only with * html,
> which other browsers will ignore.
> So you can write
> 
> * html #wikibody { width:900px; }

Or, if one does wish to alter the KatSkin skin, one can add a CSS rule
to katskin/css/layout_ie.css, which is only included when the browser is
IE.

Kathryn Andersen
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