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Im often asked "how did you do that" by those who are
still learning the more arcane aspects of HTML programming. Several
common tasks that more experienced Web gurus have down pat will
mightily befuddle the less experienced, or anyone who has come
to rely entirely on WYSIWYG editing tools.
Let’s take a look at a couple of the more prominent HTML
mysteries, and seek to enlighten those who have scratched their
heads over how these things are done. Snatching a pebble from
one’s hand is not a requirement.
Wall to Wall
If you’ve ever designed a Web page and wanted to have it
fill the screen from side to side, leaving no margin, you might
have been surprised to find that setting your table "width=100%"
doesn’t actually fill 100 percent of the screen width in
your chosen Web browser. Nor, for that matter, will setting your
table to "height=100%" force it to touch the top of
the browser window. It turns out that every browser always has
a little built-in margin; sort of a default space between the
edges on all sides, that was originally intended to keep text
from touching the sides of the window area.
This is one of the easiest things to fix, although you may have
to add it to your code manually if using a WYSIWYG editor. It
involves some of the least-documented HTML tags, and certainly
some of the most useful. They are added to the <BODY> tag
which begins the live area of your Web page. These tags affect
both Netscape and Internet Explorer specifically, so you must
include both types. These tags are:
TOPMARGIN="0" BOTTOMMARGIN="0" LEFTMARGIN="0" RIGHTMARGIN="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" MARGINWIDTH="0" and they must be placed inside the body tag itself, in the same place where you would specify overall page background color and link colors.
Images show effect of margin body tags with (background), and without (foreground) in relation to browser window edges.
If you look at the
example illustration above, you will
see how this affects the exact same Web page: in the top image,
the page fills left to right and is flush to the top, while the
lower image shows that there is a very noticeable space at top
and on either side.
