question about #containter in 2c-l-fixed.css

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snack
Member
hey all. what's this humongous negative margin for? i'm just curious. doesn't seem to be effecting anything.
```
#container {
    width:940px;
    float:right;
    margin: 0 0 0 -310px;
}
```
Posted 3 years ago #
BrightBold
Member

I came looking for an answer to the same question. My guess is that it was designed that way for the 3-column layout, where the negative margin technique is useful for having sidebars on both the left and right but still having the middle (main) column first in the source order.

I was wondering if it serves any purpose in the 2-column layout, or if you could just as easily zero out the margins and float #content in one direction and the asides in the other?

Posted 3 years ago #
snack
Member

ah, good thinking. would love an authoritative answer, but heh, it aint broke, so i'm not going to fix it.

Posted 3 years ago #

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