image border?

Hi,

I have an image and I would like to draw a border around it, I tried:
<p style="border:1px border-style:solid; border-color:#EEEEEE;
background-color:#FFFFFF;"><img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800"
height="130" border="0" ><br>
but I don't get a border, why not? Where am I going wrong?
Thank you!
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roN schreef:

Hi,

I have an image and I would like to draw a border around it, I tried:
p style="border:1px border-style:solid; border-color:#EEEEEE;
background-color:#FFFFFF;"><img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800"
height="130" border="0" ><br
but I don't get a border, why not? Where am I going wrong?
Thank you!

Walk this way:

<p><img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800"
height="130" border="0" style="border: 1px solid #EEEEEE;" /><br></p>

Watch the shortened css-markup (and the closure of the p-tag)



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'sNiek wrote:

p><img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800"
height="130" border="0" style="border: 1px solid #EEEEEE;" /><br></p

Watch the shortened css-markup (and the closure of the p-tag)

Watch the border="0" in there - sure you need it? ;-)

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roN wrote:

I have an image and I would like to draw a border around it,

It's generally best to include the border into the image itself.
It can be done in CSS, too, though.

I tried:
p style="border:1px border-style:solid; border-color:#EEEEEE;
background-color:#FFFFFF;"><img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800"
height="130" border="0" ><br
but I don't get a border, why not? Where am I going wrong?

1) You are trying to set the border on the paragraph, not the image.
(There's a difference. A paragraph has 100% width by default.)
2) You have a syntax error in the style sheet (missing semicolon after
"1px"). Use the W3C "CSS Validator" to detect syntax errors in future.
3) You have invalid markup: no alt attribute. This does not affect the
rendering, though, except when the image is not displayed.
4) You are setting background-color without setting color. This may
matter when the alt text, rather than the image, is displayed.

It's questionable whether <p> (paragraph) markup is adequate here. It
might if the alt attribute's value is a full paragraph's worth of text.
More normally, you would write

<div><img
alt="ACME International"
src="images/header.jpg"
style="border: solid #eee 1px; background: #fff; color: #000"
width="200" height="130"></div>

(If the image acts as a top-level heading for the page, use <h1> instead
of <div>.)

Els wrote:

'sNiek wrote:

p><img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800"
height="130" border="0" style="border: 1px solid #EEEEEE;" /><br></p

Watch the shortened css-markup (and the closure of the p-tag)

Watch the border="0" in there - sure you need it? ;-)

Eh.. and the <br> not having any purpose right before </p> (I think
the original example was taken from a piece of code with more lines
after the image within the same paragraph), and the 'XHTMLisation' of
the image element, while the rest is/was in plain HTML.
Oh, and the missing alt attribute.

Hmm.. yup, that's about it I think :-)

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Els wrote:

Els wrote:

'sNiek wrote:

p><img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800"
height="130" border="0" style="border: 1px solid #EEEEEE;" /><br></p

Watch the shortened css-markup (and the closure of the p-tag)

Watch the border="0" in there - sure you need it? ;-)

Eh.. and the <br> not having any purpose right before </p> (I think
the original example was taken from a piece of code with more lines
after the image within the same paragraph), and the 'XHTMLisation' of
the image element, while the rest is/was in plain HTML.
Oh, and the missing alt attribute.

Hmm.. yup, that's about it I think :-)

Hmm yup, thank you guys,
I now have following:
<img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800" height="130" border="1"
style="border: 1px solid border-color:#EEEEEE;">
but the border stays black, why? I would like to have it light grey.
Thank you!

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roN skrev:

img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800" height="130" border="1"
style="border: 1px solid border-color:#EEEEEE;"
but the border stays black, why? I would like to have it light grey

<img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800" height="130"
style="border: 1px solid #EEEEEE">
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roN skrev:

img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800" height="130" border="1"
style="border: 1px solid border-color:#EEEEEE;"
but the border stays black, why? I would like to have it light grey

img src="./images/header.jpg" width="800" height="130"
style="border: 1px solid #EEEEEE"

Yep, got rid of the deprecated border attribute and fixed the css
syntax error (missing semi-colon), but still missing alt which is a
required attribute of <img>. If there is no appropriate alternate text
to use, at least use alt="".

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