Re: CSS Questions

Eric A. Meyer <eam3(at)po.cwru.edu> wrote:
>
>    Actually, what we need is a real solution, because the above shouldn't
> work.  I know that IE allows it, but it shouldn't.  The correct answer is
> something like this, although I confess to maybe getting some particulars
> wrong:
>
>    HR {height: 1px; width: 100%; border: 1px solid black;}
>

I use something like the following:

p.line
{
 padding-top: 9pt;
 border-top: solid 1pt black
}

This gives me a line 9 points above any paragraph that I tag as
class="line".

If you think about the line as being a presentational aspect of the
paragraph it is above (or below), and not a structural element in its own
right, then this makes a lot more sense than using <hr>.


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