Re: Vertical Lines

by Mike Schienle <mgs(at)ivsoftware.com>

Date:	Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:29:30 -0700
To:	Rick <altwd(at)earthlink.net>, "HTML Writer's Guild" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
References:	earthlink
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At 2:24 PM -0400 4/2/00, Rick wrote:
>Hi.  This question might sound dumb to some, but it's driving me crazy.
>I've seen this on a few sites, but look for example at
>www.sevenquestions.com and tell me how they get those thin vertical
>lines that separate the columns on the page.  Thanks.  Rick

I believe it's done with a 1x1 pixel image that is given different 
sizes to give the effect you're seeing. Here are two lines from the 
page that show the same image with very different size attributes. 
There are at least a dozen lines in the source code with the same 
image and different sizes.

<img src="images/1p-trans.gif" width="1" height="16">
<img src="images/1p-trans.gif" width="520" height="1" border="0">
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Mike Schienle                                 Interactive Visuals, Inc.
mgs(at)ivsoftware.com                  Remote Sensing and Image Processing
http://www.ivsoftware.com/         Analysis and Application Development

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