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Created October 20, 2010 06:04
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Block element 100% width with padding
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gistfile1.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="robots" content="all" />
<title>margin vs. padding</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#legend {
margin:0;
padding:0;
color:white;
background-color:#900;
}
#wrapper {
margin:0;
padding:0 20px;
width:remainder;
background-color:red;
}
#wrapper textarea {
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:100%;
border:0;
background-color:#b22;
color:white;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="legend">width:100%, automatically, without declaration</div>
<div id="wrapper"><textarea>width:100%, with parent div width:remainder</textarea></div>
</body>
</html>
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