11 Comments

1. Alex Newell on January 10, 2008 at 2:51 pm

   Thanks so much Lyn. As very much a “non techie” this is exactly the kind of thing that I appreciate.

   🙂

   alex

   
   
   
2. Lynette on January 10, 2008 at 4:43 pm

   Hey Alex, you’re welcome. I’ll remember that and try to put in more posts like this when I work on my new blog posts.

   
   
   
3. Rick Butts on January 11, 2008 at 3:07 pm

   Hey Lynette,

   Great post – very helpful.

   It is amazing how valuable something like this is. I’ve already forwarded this URL to a friend – and was going to bookmark the page as a resource.

   But, then I thought I should put up a post on MY blog with a trackback permalink to you – so that’s what I think I’ll do.

   Let ya know (well, you’ll know!)

   Rick

   
   
   
4. polly peirce on January 14, 2008 at 7:03 pm

   Lynette, this is so cool. Thank you very much for this info, as it will definately liven up any sites or blogs I might be playing with, especially as I amdefinately not a techie.

   
   
   
5. Lynette on January 15, 2008 at 9:47 am

   Hey Rick, thanks! Looking forward to that trackback.

   Hello there Polly, ya don’t have to be techie to experiment 🙂 glad it’s helpful

   
   
   
6. Annette on March 3, 2008 at 3:27 pm

   YAY! What a great gift. Bookmarked!

   
   
   
7. Lynette on March 3, 2008 at 3:37 pm

   Thanks Annette, I am beginning a series of how code snippets. You can find more fun code here: https://techbasedmarketing.com/blog/category/how-tos

   
   
   
8. Kathyjoe on March 17, 2008 at 10:26 pm

   Thanks Lynette! I am going to try to create one of these this weekend. Thankyou!

   
   
   
9. Lynette on March 18, 2008 at 8:18 am

   Hey Kathy, have fun with them! 🙂

   
   
   
10. Jack on April 5, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Hi Lynette,
    Great stuff.

    You set the width as 90% – which makes it 90% of the size of the page (or table, etc) that the box is in. Is there a way to set it to automatically fit around whatever you put in it (I put a snippet of code in one – see here – http://www.lightningwp.com) I had to set it at a fixed 320px. But I would rather have it automatically fit the contents.

    Thanks
    Jack

    
    
    
11. Lynette on April 7, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    Hey Jack, yes I set it at 90% since I wasn’t sure what it will be applied to and % is *usually* more gentle on a wide variety of design.

    For your case, the HTML doesn’t have a ‘container’ with a fixed width. What I normally do for center aligned HTML like that is set a container to hold all the content then decide if I want that to be fixed or fluid width.

    Then drop the ‘box’ with borders in, that should scale properly.