Oops, I spoke too soon [Was: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT, HTML question]

[Stuart Johnston]

fredjame wrote:
> Stuart Johnston wrote:
> 
>> fredjame wrote:
>> (omitted for briefity)
> 
>> The best way to control borders is with CSS.  Try something like this 
>> to get started:
>>
> Thank you, but what does " " mean?  I see it doing strange things
> within "Quanta Plus 3.1.1", but it seems to have no effect at all in
> straight, hand coded html.

  is a non-breaking space.  Sometimes browsers will not display 
tables right unless the cell has something in it.  The non-breaking 
space gives you something that looks like nothing.

> 
> After fooling around for a bit with "style and border" code tips you
> provide, to see what they produced, I changed my mind a little on what I
> wanted.  Currently my script is generating something like this (see
> below), which is working well, and I like the results - thank you again
> for the "style" tip.  Where can I read up on "style classes", with
> particular reference to "manual coding"?
> 
> (some omitted stuff)

My favorite resource at the moment is:
http://blooberry.com/indexdot/css/index.html


> 
> The above code works well for browsers like Galeon 1.3.3, and Mozilla 
> 1.5, but not for Netscape 4.79 (where the alignment goes south)- so for 
> now I am back to not using the borders.  Oh, well, thanks anyway.

You could probably get it to work in Netscape 4 with some tweaking but I 
guess it is up to you how important it is.


Stuart Johnston