CSS Question - Padding / Margins

[mikes63737]

I'm trying to make a div be the width of the page, minus 200 px on each side.

So, on a 1000 px wide display it would be like this...
|--200px--|-----------600 px----------|--200px--|


And on a 2000 px wide display it would be like this...
|--200px--|-----------------1600 px----------------|--200px--|


How can I do this without it flowing over the edge of the page?

 

[angelwatt]

Just basing this off hand, but one idea,

div {
 left: 200px;
 right: 200px;
}

This is just a starter piece, but I think it would be an easy effort.

 

[mikes63737]

Thank you! I had a width:100% in there!

 

[memco]

Could also specify the margins as {margin: 0 200px;}.