Re: overlapping

by terry morse <tmorse(at)terrymorse.com>

 Date:  Sun, 22 Aug 1999 08:43:41 -0700
 To:  "St. Marys Public Library" <smlib(at)execulink.com>
 Cc:  <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
 References:  execulink jana
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>Hello!
>
>I'm working on a site located at
>http://www.execulink.com/~smlib/antiques.html
>
>The problem I'm having is this:  it looks fine on my 15" monitor, but a
>friend has a 17" and says that the text is centred on the screen rather
>than between the borders.  The text overlaps onto the right-hand border.
>Can anyone tell me how I can fix this problem?  I like having the border on
>both sides of the screen, to reflect the window shade theme, so I don't
>really want to change that if I don't have to.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Amy

Your table that contains the text and graphic is surrounded by a 
center tag. This centers the table in the current window, so the 
placement is window size dependent. You need to:

1. remove the center tag from around the table,
2. change the table width to the width of your background image.

terry
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