@charset "utf-8";
/* styles.css */

body  {
	font: 1.1em  Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #6798D0 url(../images/MtStHelena-2web.jpg) repeat-x left top;
	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. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
	color: #000000;
}
h1, h2, h3 {
	color: #414C3C;
}
#container { 
	width: 80%;  /* this will create a container 80% of the browser width */
	min-width: 940px;
	background: #FFFFFF;
	filter:alpha(opacity=80);
	-moz-opacity:.80;
	opacity:.80;
	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
} 
#header {
	background: #DDDDDD;
	padding: 0 10px;  /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
	background: #DDDDDD url(../images/serpentiniteHeader.jpg) repeat-x left top;
	font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 1.6em;
	height: 149px;
} 
#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 */
	
	color: #EEF9FD;
}

#sidebar1 {
	float: right; 
	width: 12em; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	background: #EBEBEB; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 15px 0; /* top and bottom padding create visual space within this div  */
	margin-right: 1px;
}
#sidebar1 h3, #sidebar1 p {
	margin-left: 10px; /* the left and right margin should be given to every element that will be placed in the side columns */
	margin-right: 10px;
}
#sidebar1 li ul li {
	width: 18em;
}

#mainContent {
	margin: 0 13em 0 20px; /* the left margin's value is equal to the header and footer which creates alignment down the left side of the document. */
	height: 80%;
	position:relative;
	text-align: justify;
} 
#footer {
	padding: 0 10px 24px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:#DDDDDD;
} 
#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: 8px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
	font-size: 0.6em;
}

/* Miscellaneous classes for reuse */
.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;
}
a:link {
	color: #0000DD;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
	color: #0000DD;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	color:#527FBA;
}
#quote {
	font-size: 0.8em;
	font-style: italic;
}
.fltrtSage a { 
	float: right;
	margin-left: 8px;
	padding-right: 12px;
	font-family: Papyrus;
	font-style: italic;
	font-weight: bold;
	color:#336600;
}
.dropCap {
	font-family: Papyrus, cursive, sans-serif, serif;
	font-size: 2.8em;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-transform: capitalize;
	color: #53746B;
	margin-top: -0.25em;
	margin-bottom: -0.25em;
	margin-left: 0.2em;
	float:left;
}
.wideContent {
	width: 920px;
}