Thanks Nomad, perfect.

Thanks for your reply and appreciate your detailed response, but using that template will not perform the actions I require per my post. I want borders at the extremities of a content area. This template won't do that. I was hoping for some simple html code on top of what I have used to get my partial result.
regards

Hi,
being a complete newbie to html I am hoping someone can help answer this question...

I am trying to edit a google site within a webpage content area which expands and contracts based on the browser width and height. The content area doesn't have a visible border when viewing the live page. So I added this code which gives me a border. The top and sides behave correctly but the bottom only goes as far as the text and not...