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**jonesb1234** · 08-07-2009, 10:31 AM

Hi:

Another "newbie" here, but a longtime basic webmaster.

A site I do was based on a template created many years ago. Now with wider monitors and most folks using screen resolutions beyond 800x600, the folks who provide my material are complaining the site is "too narrow". I agree and would like to be able to widen it for most monitors. Are there any dynamic HTML commands I can use to do this. I am willing to touch all the pages, but would appreciate a single easy HTML line or two for each page. Maybe in the <head> area.

Please see:

www.cfcas.org

for the problem.

Many thanks

**LadynRed** · 08-07-2009, 11:14 AM

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Are there any dynamic HTML commands I can use to do this

No. HTML is not dynamic at all.

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but would appreciate a single easy HTML line or two for each page.

I'm afraid it's not going to work that way. You could accomplish the results with CSS pretty easily, but that site is based on tables, which means modifying every single page and probably multiple places on every page. This is one reason why table-based layouts are troublesome.

**marketingman100** · 08-07-2009, 02:16 PM

All you need to do is change your difinitive table widths to percentages.

IE: Table width=90%

Problem is though you are going to have to adjust all those spacers too.

But even spacers can be based on percentages vs. absolutes.

spacer width=2%

It's going to take you a while.

Are you up to speed on CSS yet, and the use of DIVs

While I am still an advocate of tables, even I would encourage you to upgrade the site.

**thewebtaylor** · 08-12-2009, 06:36 AM

I think that DIV's and CSS would be the way to go with this. Just play around with them, I used to use tables, but once I got used to DIV's things became much easier!! There's plenty of help around the net

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