"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" wrote in message news:op.wdqo2emfule2fv@douda-yannick... Le Thu, 03 May 2012 16:26:14 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen a �crit: >> Randy Brukardt wrote: >> >>> I'd prefer to bound the maximum column width -- but >>> that's not a possibility in CSS 1 or 2. >> >> Isn't that what the "max-width" attribute does? > >Not supported by Internet Explorer, up to version 6 (later versions are >OK), which is still widely in use in the industry and others corporations. >Support in IE <=6, requires hacking. Thanks. I know it didn't work when I was laying out these pages; back then we had to support IE 5 and Netscape 7 and Firefox 1, all of which had problems with "fancy" CSS. We don't have to support the oldest of these anymore, but surely IE 6 still needs to be supported. At some point soon, I ought to go back and retest all of the styles to see if any improvements can be made (the last major reworking of the styles was in early 2006). But I wouldn't change the layout that much; we don't want complex or fancy for this reference material. Randy.