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full browser width outside wrapper

         

roclimb

4:15 am on Feb 9, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi,

I have a 100 pixel wide wrapper/container with a 3 column layout in it. I want to place a long div with auto margins that takes up the entire browser width for a header. I want this outside of the wrapper and on top of the page. For some reason when I make a div there it wont let me add a color and styles. Any suggestions?
Thanks

glimbeek

3:27 pm on Feb 10, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Can you give us your code?

This should work:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
margin: 0px;
}
#header {
background-color: #FF0;
width: 100%;
}
#wrapper {
width: 100px;
}
#col1 {
width: 20px;
background-color:#3F3
}
#col2 {
width: 40px;
background-color:#CCC
}
#col3{
width: 40px;
background-color:#F0F;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="header">Header text</div>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="col1">Col1</div>
<div id="col2">Col3</div>
<div id="col3">Col3</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
 

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