Problem with width of the catalog

[lorax]

I've wrapped the store code (everything between the body tags) in a DIV tag which has a width of 740px. The RH column sticks out about 20px. It seems that something within the main area is holding it out there but all the widths show 100% - which means they should adapt to the new width.

 

I've used this DIV technique on two other sites so I know it works but I can't seem to find what's messing with the width. Does someone have a ready answer or lead for me to follow? TIA.

[lorax]

Well - I found a work around but I don't like the answer. I had a padding on my DIV which was part of the problem. I ended up having to expand the width of the DIV to 760px to accommodate the tables. Still wish I knew what was forcing that width. :cry:

[Guest]

I usually look at the page in Mozilla Composer to figure out which table tag is causing the problem. You could also try a view source with a search for 760.

 

I would have tried one of these, but I don't see a site link in your post nor a www link to try.

 

Hth,

Matt

[Guest]

Playing around with the page with Composer, I found that if I restricted it more (say to 700), it would shrink correctly. It seems that the problem was caused by the span section in the following line:

define('TEXT_MAIN', '<span class="messageStackSuccess">This is a default setup of the osCommerce project...</span>');

which is part of the default text. IIRC, there is a CSS option to control this (so it doesn't automatically assume that the span should override the table width parameters). However, the simplest thing is probably just to not use spans in your actual text or to manually specify that it should go to the next line.

 

Hth,

Matt