Who can check my code? Minor problem on my CSS page. . .

Great input - thanks.

I'm still learning, so please bear with me.

I integrated your suggestions as to replacing SPAN with DIV. Works great
now. Also, the page and the CSS check out with w3 as long as I use a
"transitional" HTML classification.

Questions:

- If I use a SPAN on an image, this causes it to be interpreted as text? How
so?

- Will use of "transitional" cause my pages to be drawn or recognized as
different somehow? What are the perils of doing this?

Thanks

------------S

boclair wrote:

kchayka wrote:

boclair wrote:


S wrote:

div id="container"
span class="palletteImage"><img src="image/cp_t_tools.gif" alt=""
width="130" height="15" /></span

The first thing that needs to be done is replace <span> with <div


span> isn't necessarily wrong, but we need to look at the bigger
picture. In context, those images are acting as headings, so some <hx
markup would be more appropriate, methinks.

All your points are taken. Just one thing, IE, doing its own thing,
renders differently (and non-standardly) if span is used instead of div.
I should have been more careful. But as you point out neither is
semantically valid.

When the image is interpreted as text, the default is to render space
for the descender isn't it?


That's what vertical-align:baseline (the img default) does.
URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.h...vertical-align

Sorry, but I have only a blurry concept of vertical-align. I find the
Reference's treatment of vertical-align especially replete with
technical jargon and obscure in its language.

What, for example, is the meaning of
"bottom: Align the bottom of the aligned subtree with the bottom of the
line box".

But before that what is the form of an image box? It is an inline box;
is a replaced object having an inherent height property but is rendered,
by default (baseline), with allowance for descenders?

Can I assume then that the subtree is the unadorned object and this is
what vertical-align:bottom draws.

Louise