Maggie,

Keep in mind that you can do pretty much anything you need using CSS (like
setting margins and widths for instance), including colors for hr rules.

For instance,
<style type="text/css">
<!--
BODY {MARGIN: 0pt}
-->
</style>

... sets the margins to 0 while...

<hr style='border-style: solid; color=#000000; height=1'>

sets the color of a solid horizontal rule.

Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"

----- Original Message -----
From: "M Carr" <admin(at)laingsociety.org>
To: "Keith D Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: Table nightmare


> Keith,
>
> Thank you, it was excellent advice.... and if there ever was a page of
code
> that needed a paper bag on it's head, that was it. I sure won't try to
play
> two programs off each other again. It seemed faster to scrap the pages
> entirely and start over again, which I've been doing over the last day or
> so, and I'm quite hooked on the whole validating thing now. The only tags
it
> doesn't seem to like are the body marginheight and marginwidth, which kind
> of surprised me because apparently IE is the browser that doesn't like it,
> and specifying the colour of the hr. Otherwise it's telling me there are
no
> errors across the board.
>
> I learned a great deal in a short time, sincere thanks to everyone for the
> help.
>
> Maggie.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith D Sellars <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
> To: M Carr <admin(at)laingsociety.org>; hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> Date: May 9, 2003 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Table nightmare
>
>
> :Best thing to do in my opinion is start with validating the page.  Go to
> :http://www.w3c.org, validate the page and then go from there.
> :
> :The only thing that I can see at a quick glance is that you have some
> :closing p tags ( /p ) throughout the
> :http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/psychotherapy/fps1.htm page.  This may
be
> :what is causing the problem.
> :
> :There are certain html elements that paragraph tags can't include (this
is
> :what I mean by "overlapping").  For instance, don't use the following:
> :
> :<p> <hr width=100> </p>
> :
> :.. but instead use something like:
> :<p>&nbsp;</p> <hr width=100>
> :
> :.. also can't have paragraph tags including a table.
> :
> :Try that and then validate the site.
> :
> :Thanks,
> :Keith D Sellars
> :WebGraffix
> :www.webgraffix.com
> :
> :"Making database sites seem easy"
> :
> :----- Original Message -----
> :From: "M Carr" <admin(at)laingsociety.org>
> :To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> :Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 1:32 PM
> :Subject: Table nightmare
> :
> :
> :> Dear Everyone,
> :>
> :> I've been struggling for months with the writing of an academic
website,
> :at
> :> http://laingsociety.org. The visitors to the site equally use Mac and
> :> Windows browsers, and fairly older operating systems, such as Win95,
etc.
> :>
> :> I have been trying to implement CSS tags where possible, and in an
> :> effort to make sure everyone will receive a decently-formatted page I
> :think
> :> I've done something to wreck the template table,
> :> because the characters of text in the right margin appear to be cut
off,
> :and
> :> the whitespace that should be on the right is not showing up. I can't
> :> replicate this problem on any computer I have access to and would be so
> :> grateful if someone could tell me how to fix this problem.
> :>
> :> Here are two examples of the problem pages:
> :> http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/psychotherapy/fps1.htm
> :> http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/critpsych/stillc1.htm
> :>
> :> I've uploaded screenshots of what the pages are supposed to look like
> :here:
> :> http://laingsociety.org/despair.htm
> :>
> :> Really at my wit's end, hope to hear from someone soon, Thanks.
> :>
> :> Maggie.
> :>
> :>
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