Wrapper body width

[Kuzyo]

Hi guys

Can’t figure out why some developers make wrapper the same width as a body? In what circumstances I have to do it?

[Kitty Giraudel]

Do you have any example? I’m not sure what you mean.

By the way, some developers are still kind of reluctant from using the body as the main wrapper.

[Kuzyo]

Here is example http://rutracker.org/forum/index.php **body_container** he doesn’t have special properties. And I saw sach layout in more sites.

[Paulie_D]

> In what circumstances I have to do it?

When you come across a situation where it’s required to solve a problem.

I have no idea what that situation might be but after while it might just become habit…like using a reset

[Kuzyo]

Before I knew that it’s bad habit to set width to body, but then I have read this article http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/using-the-body-element-as-a-wrapper/
Which variant is better to use?

[Kitty Giraudel]

> Before I knew that it’s bad habit to set width to body

There are two very different things here:
– setting a fixed width to any container is kind of “bad habit” since it will break at lower screensizes
– using the body as a container is not a bad habit, it’s perfectly valid

[Kuzyo]

I never had experience to build responsive page, but for fixed page body as a wrapper seems quite natural

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