HTML/CSS/Box Model/min width
min-width:700px
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style>
body{
background:#ccc;
text-align:center;
}
#outer{
width:80%;
background:#aaa;
margin:auto;
text-align:left;
position:relative;
min-width:700px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
h1{
text-align:center;
}
p{
padding:10px;
margin:0 0 1em 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">
<div id="content">
<h1>This is the title</h1>
<p>this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. </p>
<p>This is the content : this is the content :
<p>This is the content : this is the content : his is the content : this
is the content : this is the content : this is the content : </p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
width: auto; min-width: 200px
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
p {
padding: 10px;
margin: 10px;
border: thin solid black;
width: auto;
min-width: 200px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
This is a test. This is a test.
</p>
</body>
</html>