body {
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
	padding: 0;
	text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers */
	color: rgb(0,89,156);
	font-size: 1em;
/*	width:100%;
	height:100%;
*/	min-width:840px;
	background-image:url(_Images/bg_Blue_Wave.jpg);
}
.master #container {
/*	width: 100%;  /* using 780px (20px less than a full 800px width) allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
*/	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
/*	border: 1px solid rgb(193,216,247);
*/	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
}
.master #header {
	position:fixed;
	height:76px;
	float:left;
/*	width:36em;
	top:0px;
*/	min-width:840px;
	background-image:url(_Images/bg_Blue_Wave.jpg);
/*	background:	rgb(255,255,255);
*/	font-size: 1.5em;
	color: rgb(0,89,156);
}
.master #header h1 {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
	padding: 10px 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */

}
.master #topbar {
	position:fixed;
	top:76px;
	width:100%;
	height:22px;
	color: rgb(197,229,249);
	background-color: rgb(0,89,156);
}
.master #sidebar {
	position:fixed;
	top:99px;
	width:140px;
	padding:10px 10px 10px 10px;
	color: rgb(197,229,249);
	background-color: rgb(0,89,156);
}
.master #mainContent {
	z-index:-1;
	position:absolute;
	top:89px;   /* This is 10px higher than the bottom of the topbar/menubar to hide the nbsp; block at the top of mainContent */
	left:160px;
	height:100%;
/*	width:100%-160px%;  /* This is an illegal dimension declaration that somehow works (using % width for sidebar and mainContent does not work) */
*/	padding:20px;  /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
}
.master #footer {
	padding: 0 10px 0 20px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:rgb(25,95,150);
	font-size: 150%;
}
.master #footer p {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
	padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
	text-align: center;
	color: rgb(197,229,249);
}
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
	float: right;
	margin-left: 8px;
}
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
	float: left;
	margin-right: 8px;
}
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
	clear:both;
	height:0;
	font-size: 1px;
	line-height: 0px;
}

