Left border for page

[neil9999]

Hi,

I have this style sheet, linked to externally:

body{
border-style: solid;
border-width: 0px 0px 0px 40px;
border-color: #000080;
}

In IE, the border on the left goes all the way down the page, but on Netscape it stops at the level where the text stops.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Neil

[Primal]

Neil, I'm not sure that you can fix this. You'll be told by many people in here that the border stopping where the content stops is a feature not a bug. It's supposed to be that way. Let me look around and see if I can find an ALA article you'd find useful.

[ray326]

The article Primal is probably thinking of is about Faux Columns. That's probably the technique you'll want to use.

[Primal]

Try this one out...
Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins (http://alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/)

[Ben Rogers]

Just to be thorough, here's the Faux Columns (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/) article Ray was referring to. (Great technique, extremely useful)

[neil9999]

Thanks very much for all your help. In the end, I did this:

background: url(border.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
margin-left: 50px;

Border.jpg being a 40 X 5 image totally red.

Thanks again,

Neil