Re: best way to set line width


"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2007-07-28, The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:
Hi. It has been suggested that I adjust line length in my pages online.

My web site is www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net The home page isn't a
problem
with readability, but there are many pages with text in

As someone else said, don't worry about IE. Even without a
max-width, your pages are readable. Long lines are not as bad when
there are ample margins and a good line-height. Increasing the
line-height a little will help.

Do use a max-width (I like 35em) for the benefit of those with
conforming browsers, but don't worry about the rest; the page will
degrade gracefully.

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thank you Chris. How should I implement the max-width? Would the following
work in the style***?

p { max-width: 35em; }

Would that be a bad idea to declare it for all <p>?

What about the things like class="center" etc. that I have in my style***.
Do I add the max-width to each of those classes in my style***, or would
declaring all <p> to have it cover the other classes as well? Sorry if these
are dumb questions.


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