Re: Image alignment Problem

I think the problem is not necessarily the resolution but the size of the
screen? You know, more room to expand so the text did not wrap?

Edward Springer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Antonio" <santonio(at)delanet.com>
To: <kixi(at)altavista.net>; "HWG-basics" <HWG-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: Image alignment Problem


> Jakob,
>
> You specify your images to 'float' to the left by using the 'align'
> attribute.  However, there isn't enough text associated with each image to
> completely wrap around them.  So any content that follows, continues to
wrap
> around the image until it clears.  In your case, it doesn't clear before
you
> specify the next image to float to the left.  This creates 'nested' floats
> and gives you the stepping appearance you are seeing.  In these instances
> you need to specify a break tag with the attribute 'clear'.  The value of
> 'clear' will be the margin you want any content that follows to align
with.
> In your case I'm assuming you would want <.br clear="left"> (without the
> period of course).  You need to place this just before your next heading.
> It sounds like your former display was wrapping your content and therefore
> masking the problem.  In other words, it was there all along, but your
setup
> was hiding it from you.  I can't explain why it showed up on your new
> monitor since you say you are also running it at the same resolution.
>
> hth,
> Steve
>
> > On my former 15" monitor at a resolution at 800x600 dpi everything
> > displayed fine. On the 17" monitor at the same resolution the display
> > more or less different. It looks like this:
> >
> > +------+
> > |Img 1 |
> > |      |
> > |      |
> > |      |Heading L2 Two
> > +------+
> > +----------------+<Text>
> > |Img 2           |
> > |                |
> > |                |
> > |                |</Text>
> > |                |
> > +----------------+Heading L2 Three
> >
> > The URL is http://www.bank-ic.de/en/gerat/ndu.en.6.html
> > The display problem is independent from the browser used (NC, IE and
> > Opera) and independent whether the page is load within the frame or not
> > and the sourcecode looks fine.
> >
> > My questions:
> > Does anyone know, what am I doing wrong or is it something far
> > obviously??
>

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