RE: Body Margins

by "Katherine Pollara" <kpollara(at)home.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:39:41 -0500
To:	<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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-----Original Message-----
From: jay(at)JaySmith.com [mailto:jay(at)JaySmith.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 9:28 AM
To: kpollara(at)home.com
Nathan,

  break it into smaller pieces.  The browser will load the first table first,
  then go on to successive ones.  Depending on the format, you can make it
  appear to be all one table when it may be several back to back.
  Kate Pollara



 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
 > [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Jay Smith
 > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:08 PM
 > To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
 > Subject: Re: Body Margins
 >
 > My concern about using a table to contain the _entire_ page, as Nathan
 > mentions, is that in Netscape it can mean that the browser waits until
 > it has received _everything_ before it renders the page.  If the pages
 > are big (like mine tend to be), that can make it seem like the
 > transfer has stalled and the reader might go elsewhere.
 >
 > Jay
 >
 > Nathan Lyle wrote:
 > >
 > > > I'm finding conflicting information on the web...
 > > > Does NetScape4 support margin attributes in the body tag?
 > > > ...as in...
 > > > <BODY leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0"
 > > > marginwidth="0">>
 > >
 > > I'm not sure what's "official", but I've found that the above works in
 > > both Netscape and IE 4.x and up. But, I've *also* had to include a
 > > table to make sure that things bump up to the edge.
 > >
 > > <.body marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 topmargin=0 leftmargin=0>
 > > <.table border=0 width="99%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
 > > <.tr><td>
 > > page content/html stuff....
 > > <./td><./tr>
 > > <./table>
 > > <./body>
 > >
 > > Hope that helps. :)
 > >
 > > ~Nathan (natelyle(at)chartermi.net)
 >
 > --
 > Jay Smith
 >
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 >
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 >
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Jay Smith

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	1-800-447-8267
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