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[caliman]

That's in the ballpark.

The middle column will not shrink down past a point even though all it has is 'Welcome to the store!'

Looking at the td's closely, I don't see them being hardset other than the 150px spacers in the navigation and cart menus.

SO I am with you, it's being held up somewhere else but I can't find it.

I've searched this site pretty well now and I haven't found anyone specifically detailing this issue.

[kube]

If you're using a default install then it looks to be the header with the big buttons and the logo. If you were to temporarily remove them, you can then make the page smaller without horizontal scrollbars (provided there is only text and no images in the main body column).

[kube]

On a default install of 4.1.9 and if we were to remove featured products and have only text on the home page. Then we cleared all the contents from head.tpl we should see that the width goes to...

leftcolumnwidth + rightcolumnwidth + longest word from main column

Hope this helps.

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Edit: Ooops double post. I knew I posted already but didn't see it on refresh d'oh!

[caliman]

Thanks Kobe I'll look into it.

[proboscidian]

I'm entering this a little late, and not to give layout clues since the referenced website isn't there anymore but to express an opinion on usability. While 1024 x 768 may now be the most popular browser resolution and only 10% use 800 x 600, that 10% is still an awful lot of people to alienate because they can't go from the end of one line of text to the beginning of the next without having to scroll sideways and thus lose their place. And, even people with higher resolution monitors don't always use all the available monitor space for one browser window. I personally use a 1920 x 1200 resolution monitor, but my browser windows are not usually open wider than 800; that allows me to multi-task, and move things from one window to another.

I always try to design so that 800 x 600 is usable. I do get the occasional "why is there so much unused space? maybe we can put ... there" but I try to fight that with statistics. I'm also not very fond of flexible layouts, because text lines that are too long are hard to read - people also lose their place when their eyes have to travel too far to get to the beginning of the next line.

[boomobile]

I have a slightly different problem (IE issue) My dialog "area" is spilling over in IE. How can I fix this? I need it to be fixed width of 900pix. Firefox is fine. I used the header to constrain the width of the page, but for some reason on the first checkout page the dialog box spills over to be approx 90% width. It does not resize with the window.
I already tried to constrain the dialog width to 900 pix, (it was set at 100%) does not affect this.

[chawla@moviesandgamesonli]

Is there anyway of making the page width of the Fashion Mosiac skin wider?

[Victor D]

chawla@moviesandgamesonli
For 4.2 there is a seperate forum since it uses quite different template system.
You need to change width of #page-container from 780 px to somethin' else (900px, 90% or any other value)
in your main.css
but there is also some other custom work required since the bar with authform at the top and possibly some other elements has a fixed width.

[chawla@moviesandgamesonli]

Thanks, that sorted out the problem I had.