Monday 06th of October 2008 02:51:05 PM

center

This BOX ist centered and adjusts itself to the browser window.
The height ajusts itself to the content.
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body {
background-color: #e1ddd9;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, Sans-Serif;
color:#564b47;
margin: 20px 140px  20px 140px;
text-align: center;
}
#content {
width: 100%;
padding: 0px;
text-align: left;
background-color: #fff;
overflow: auto;
}

using a negative value for right) or by specifying a padding for the paragraph that is wide enough to accommodate the positioned element. Also, since it has a transparent background, the parent element's text shows through the positioned element. The only way to avoid this is to set a background for the positioned element.

Note that the boldface element in this case is positioned in relation to its parent element's content box, which defines its containing block. Without the relative positioning of the parent work fine.  (They're shorter too.) 

If a URL omits the filename, the browser looks for a file named "index.html" in the specified directory.  If there is no such file, the browser lists the entire directory's contents.  You should name the top-level page of your website "index.html" to prevent this.  Then you can refer to your website with a nice compact URL like "http://www.taxidermy.org/~mad_dog/"
  The University of Delaware order to avoid being obscured behind the floating element.

8.3.2.1. Negative margins

As was discussed in the previous chapter, negative margins can cause floated elements to move outside of their parent elements. This seems to be in direct contradiction to the rules explained earlier, but it isn't. In the same way that elements can appear to be wider than their parents through negative margins, floated elements can appear to protrude out of their of DIV, and therefore a grandchild of BODY, so it does not match the rule.

Child selectors must have at least two or more selectors separated by the > symbol. It is possible to make a child selector part of a contextual selector as well: 

DIV OL>LI EM {color: purple;}

This rule matches any EM text that is a descendant of a list item, as long as that list item is a child of an