Thanks for the "reminder," stymiee.

Of course, I have used that very tag several times, but for some reason faced a mental block this time.

I'm trying to define a block smaller than the full width of the screen and then have that block centered horizontally. I can get it to work with IE7, but not with Opera9 or Firefox2, which leads me...

In my particular case, my sister's bookkeeping site, I considered what her clients might be using, and figured they probably are not state-of-the-art web geeks, and may well have older computer...

That's why I included the link ( www.kecsvcs.com/test ) in the previous message. To see the code, just view the source in your browser. Perhaps wrongly, I thought that would be better than filling...

I found a workaround that doesn't sell my purist soul directly to the devil!

I was brushing up on JS tutorials and amongst the pages turned up in web searches, I stumbled across "faux columns" --...

You touched on an item that strikes a bit of unease: JavaScript. I know next to nothing about JS, but I suspect it is going to be the key that unlocks my problem.

As JS-uneducated as I am, I've...

Thanks for that education. I hadn't been aware of the :after "pseudo-element" and how it worked.

I was able to reverse-engineer the page you linked and apply it to my test page, but it only takes...

Thanks for the great feedback! I didn't realize CSS or HTML were case-sensitive.

I'd kind of figured that a compromise in the hardline "No Tables" stance was going to be the solution, but wanted...

Greetings! I'm self-taught (i.e. amateur) website designer. I've built a few basic web sites for myself and friends. I'm currently designing a site for my sister, and have a basic working model...