Re: A very simple HTML question

No, I need them next to each other, with the background boxes lined up.

Richard

richard d wrote:

No, I need them next to each other, with the background boxes lined up.

Float the first DIV left. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-float

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Wouldnt it be gonzo simpler just to make a .jpg or .gif with a paint
program and then <img src="yourscreen.gif">
at whatever size you want? Or- is there a problem with links listed
inside the area of the graphic?

Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work I'm afraid.

I think this is a sizing issue more than a positioning one.

The problem is that the serif font is taller than the mono font, even
though they are the same font-size, so the enclosing backgrounds are a
different size and don't match up when placed side by side (or one
inside the other).

One possibility could be to manually draw background boxes but I would
have to be able to determine how big to make them by somehow or another
finding out the size of a particular font on whatever browser it was
that I was running on.

Richard

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

richard d wrote:
No, I need them next to each other, with the background boxes lined up.


Float the first DIV left. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-float

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richard d wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work I'm afraid.

I think this is a sizing issue more than a positioning one.

The problem is that the serif font is taller than the mono font, even
though they are the same font-size, so the enclosing backgrounds are a
different size and don't match up when placed side by side (or one
inside the other).

One possibility could be to manually draw background boxes but I would
have to be able to determine how big to make them by somehow or another
finding out the size of a particular font on whatever browser it was
that I was running on.

Not sure what you are really trying to accomplish here, a URL to a page
with your attempt might help.

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Day Brown wrote:

Wouldnt it be gonzo simpler just to make a .jpg or .gif with a paint
program and then <img src="yourscreen.gif"
at whatever size you want? Or- is there a problem with links listed
inside the area of the graphic?

I have no idea what you are talking about!

Firstly, this in *not* GoogleGroups but Usenet, you are just using
GoogleGroups to view Usenet which reformats the thread as a single
webpage with all comments listed in a column. This is *not* how it is
with us how use a newsreader.

Secondly, that means we do not see previous posts above which you are
commenting to.

Thirdly, you are supposed to quote the bits of previous posts to which
you are directly responding to to give readers context and complete the
"dialog". It would be very helpful here, because your comments do not
seem to relate at all to this thread...

Maybe you should try again, eh?


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It was not important enough to bother quoting. So I wont try again.

And no, I dont much care for groups.google either, but my new server,
hughes.net dont have a newserver. The other satellite ISP
(wildblue.com) does, but they aint taking new customers just yet.

If you have not followed the thread, why should you care what I say?

Day Brown wrote:

It was not important enough to bother quoting. So I wont try again.

And no, I dont much care for groups.google either, but my new server,
hughes.net dont have a newserver. The other satellite ISP
(wildblue.com) does, but they aint taking new customers just yet.

If you have not followed the thread, why should you care what I say?

No, you are missing the point, in a newsreader I do not see ^^^^^ this

above in your message to which you are referring printed above like in
GoogleGroups. Depending on the complexity of the tread, where in it you
reply to, and whether on not I have read messages filtered or not I have
to hunt back in the thread tree to find the "referred to" message to
follow your response.

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On Dec 9, 3:45 pm, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<a.nony.m... (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote:

My question is why did you cross-post this thread to alt.community ?
Nobody else uses it. There's lotsa dead usenet groups. If you crosspost

all your own posts to one of them, then you get to see only those
replies to your own posts.

As for the issue at hand, the dude could use a paint program to make
whatever he wants the reader to see, whatever fonts in whatever places.
I do something like that on a website I'm putting together right now:
http://www.dc-pc.org which uses a custom font that I designed along
with color control that'd be really difficult, if possible, in html.

You present the reader with a screenshot. If you need to have links on
it, then have the screenshot as a backgound img.

I've been online for over 20 years, and remember BBS forums with my
first VGA in *text* mode. The qwkmail reader had a single line toolbar
at the top, which let me & you have 49 lines of text to look at in a
message. This google window gives me about 20. sux. Another thing some
BBS groups provided was ANSI color. Your words'd be say green, mine
yellow, Johnathan's red, and so on. It was easy to see just who was
saying what. Nobody bitched about being misquoted. it didnt fill up the
screen with ">>>" and didnt need to wordwrap stubs. All that dos
functionality was lost going to windoze gui interfaces.

Day Brown wrote:

On Dec 9, 3:45 pm, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
a.nony.m... (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote:
My question is why did you cross-post this thread to alt.community ?
Nobody else uses it. There's lotsa dead usenet groups. If you crosspost
all your own posts to one of them, then you get to see only those
replies to your own posts.

That is not how you should use a NG. Filter on your own end. I have
corrected the follow up. Didn't notice it at first...

As for the issue at hand, the dude could use a paint program to make
whatever he wants the reader to see, whatever fonts in whatever places.
I do something like that on a website I'm putting together right now:
http://www.dc-pc.org which uses a custom font that I designed along
with color control that'd be really difficult, if possible, in html.

Horrid idea! Totally unreadable to a text only browser or screen
reader...(an in a graphic browser)

You present the reader with a screenshot. If you need to have links on
it, then have the screenshot as a backgound img.

I've been online for over 20 years, and remember BBS forums with my
first VGA in *text* mode. The qwkmail reader had a single line toolbar
at the top, which let me & you have 49 lines of text to look at in a

Ah, but this is *not* a forum, but a newsgroup. Each posting is a
separate entity which may or may not be still accessible form the
server. You could conceivably replay to a message no long cached on the
server...

message. This google window gives me about 20. sux. Another thing some
BBS groups provided was ANSI color. Your words'd be say green, mine
yellow, Johnathan's red, and so on. It was easy to see just who was
saying what. Nobody bitched about being misquoted. it didnt fill up the
screen with ">>>" and didnt need to wordwrap stubs. All that dos
functionality was lost going to windoze gui interfaces.

You should quote responsibly, and trim out the bits not being commented on.

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