I am having horrible troubles with this stupid website.. I cannot get the wordwrap to work on my main body. I assume it should be working automatically, however, for whatever reason, it refuses to work.
I did not do the graphics for this webpage.. I was given the resources and forced to piece it together this way, i know it's a low quality design:
http://clinton.k12.mo.us/website/
as you can see, it never wraps the text, even though it is definately restricted within this box by the width property.
what am i doing wrong!?

this is the code referring to the main body:

#content {
position: relative;
left: 246px;
width: 550px;
padding-top: 12px;
}

thanks so much for even taking the time to look at this as i know it's got to be some really simple, stupid mistake, but i have tried multiple times to fix it, and as of yet, to no avail.

thanks,
Keith

Try pasting some real text in there. 111111 etc. is a non breaking word. (One Big Word.) This could be causing it.

Just copy a few paragraphs of text from somewhere and replace the *One Big Word.*

Then we will know for sure if there is a problem. If this doesn't work come back and we'll figure it out.

~Chip

I'm slightly embarrassed. Thanks so much, i am retarded. (an entire weekend of messing with it and thats what was wrong)..
thanks,
Keith

That's where the saying comes from keith.

... can't see the forrest through the trees....

We all do it. When I am too close I just can't see these things either. Wait until you start using php, asp, or coldfusion, if yo uhaven't yet. It gets 50 times more *up-close*

You must get a second, third, even a fourth pair of eyes to find all of these stupid little annoyances that are so blairingly obvious once someone else points them out..!!

Like all of us, its great to have such a resource as this forum for help. Especially for those of us who run single handed shops..

Keith don't feel embarassed. I spent an evening once trying to figure out why the text on one of my sites wasn't wrapping and yep it was the exact same thing. I've done my share of overlooking equally obvious things. The good news is once it happens it sledom happens a second time.

haha, thanks guys.. and i have messed with php a little, and just getting the thing installed was a pain in the butt (on a side note, apache and i are not currently on speaking terms after our last 4 hour argument..) I can only imagine how complex and expansive php is whenever the mere installer is unfriendly.. haha.
thanks again,
keith

Actually the install is one of the harder parts. I think when I installed Apache, PHP, and MySQL on my laptop all the instructions I had were each missing one essential part so I needed to take some notes from a few books at the bookstore.

It'll get easier than the install. If you've done any programming before the language is pretty easy to understand.

Of course among my many duh moments was forgetting to rename files with the .php extension and then wondering why my PHP code wasn't working.