Re: Limiting content width - DIV or BODY?


Michael Laplante wrote:
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Michael Laplante wrote:

Page margins for printing are the user and browser not the website
designer and therein lies your problem.

I have come across articles by people who've successfully attempted the
problem with CSS.

No they haven't. CSS simply doesn't have access to the physical page
rather than the canvas in the manner you'd need to do this.

(Best technique so far available is MeadCo's ScriptX ActiveX control -
with obvious limitations)

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