Welcome to the Webmaster

JeevesBond — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the Webmaster Forums!

Just a quick note: please don't use tables for laying out your pages! It's a method that's been dying since the nineties and doesn't seem to want to go away. Not complaining or having a go at you, just something to bear in mind.

Shelmerdine wrote:

Sorry to sound thick, but what does a <div> element do?

We have an article about that, it's called What is a div?

Don't worry about sounding thick, you don't.

Check out here for

checkwebsite — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:57:38 +0000

Check out here for explanation of html element
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element

Thanks Megan, Sorry to sound

Shelmerdine — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:25:00 +0000

Thanks Megan,

Sorry to sound thick, but what does a <div> element do?

The website's http://www.ditsybags.co.uk/ All very basic at the moment, a work in progress.

Thanks again,
WS

Hi Shelmerdine, That's

Megan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:50:49 +0000

Hi Shelmerdine,

That's basically what HTML elements do if they don't have a width specified to contain them. Try writing a plain HTML page with some simple elements. Block-level elements (paragraphs, tables, lists etc.) will expand to fill the available space. Then try adding a width using CSS. This will constrain them to the width you specify.

Those headings should stretch - I'm guessing they're just not long enough to push the width wider.

You shouldn't use a table to try to correct the layout - use a <div> and give it a width using CSS.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask. It might be helpful to post a link to what you have so far so we can see exactly what's happening.