Re: Basic formatting HTML question

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Fred
<testing@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> declared in
alt.html,alt.html.editors.webedit,alt.html.editors:

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> On a page with all text, when the lines wrap at the right, some words
butt
> right up to the very edge of the screen. 

Not by default in any graphical browser I know of. All have default
margin and/or padding on html and/or body.

> I think I have seen code that makes the text take up only a certain
amount
> of the screen -- say 95%.  Can someone pls give me a hand on this?

There are any number of ways, depending on exactly what you want.
Applying a small amount of padding to the text's containing element is
perhaps the simplest.

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