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Designing Page Layout 179
Setting layout width
There are two types of widths you can use in Layout view: Fixed width and
Autostretch. The width appears in the column header area at the top of each
column. Fixed width is a specific numeric width, such as 300 pixels, and is
displayed as a number. Autostretch sets the width to resize automatically
depending on the window size and is displayed as a wavy line. With autostretch,
your layout always fills the browser window, no matter what size window the
viewer has set. Although fixed width is the default setting, you’ll typically set some
of your layout cells or tables to be fixed width and one to be autostretch. The
settings you specify affects all the cells or tables in that column. Only one column
in a layout can be autostretch.
For example, suppose your layout has a menu bar on the left side of the page, the
title at the top, and the main content area on the right. You might set the left
column to a fixed width and the main content area to autostretch.