- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:26:09 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
>
> I often find myself using nested DIV tags when I write XHTML documents.
> That way I can position the "content" area of the document through CSS.
>
> ...
> <body>
> <div id="wrap">
> <div id="header"/>
> <div id="nav"/>
> <div id="content"/>
> <div id="footer"/>
> </div>
> </body>
>
> #wrap {
> width: 500px;
> margin: 50px auto;
> }
>
> I want to be able to skip the #wrap element, since it adds neither semantics
> nor structure to the document (it's the only child of the BODY element)
Why not style the <body> element directly?
> As you can see, "::ouside" won't do what I want here (assuming it's a
> bad idea to generate a pseudo-element *outside* the BODY element).
Why would it be bad?
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