You are right.... a typo on my part.  Should have read what I typed a little
better.  Thanks for the correction, Darrell.

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

Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>
To: "Keith D Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: Table nightmare


> ...only you might want to replace '=' with ':' in that style attribute's
> contents!
>
> :)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith D Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
> To: "M Carr" <admin(at)laingsociety.org>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 9:19 AM
> Subject: Re: Table nightmare
>
>
> 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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