Sent by Joseph A Nagy Jr Enterprises on 16 January 2003 18:06
Geoff Sheridan wrote:
>> Okay, did so. It did work as in the pic, but that is a very cracked
>> setting. I full well expected the border, background and the rest of
>> the attributes to only go so far around the text, not across the whole
>> screen. I also browse with the window maximized.
>
>
> To get the effect you're after, either set a width explicitly, or apply
> the borders etc to an inline element. This is normal. Example:
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1" />
> <title>Block vs Inline</title>
> <style type="text/css">
> p {border:1px solid red;}
> span {border:1px solid red;}
> </style>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p>p is a block element so this is as wide as the page</p>
> <span>this border snugly fits the inline element's contents</span>
>
> </body>
> </html>
Easy enough I imagine. Thanks. :-)
I still have the problem of only having Mozilla 1.2.1 (and 1.3a) and NS
4.78. I guess I could just occassionaly send a site check request.
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