In my CSS, I need to make the width of a div 100% – 10px. Is this possible? If so, how?
Pretty straight forward and simple.
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This is not possible in CSS. You simply can’t do any calculations in CSS. You’ll have to rely on Javascript for that.
If you absolutely need it to work through CSS only, you should wrap it in a div with a padding.
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And here’s the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/sZvDY/