Re: what's a 'block element?' was: reliable way to float a block of text?

Well, I gotta admit, I'm stunned too! How on earth did you make that work?
And how did you figure it out? I thought something like that could only be
done with CSS. I tried it out and tested it on NN4.76, NN6.01, IE6, and
Opera6. It works perfectly in all of them! I added some CSS for the border
of the table and it still worked great in that it didn't choke NN4.7 - it
just ignored the style. If youd like to check it out using Linux or Mac
etc... to see if it still works, I'd be interested in the results. Check it
here: http://www.web-design-cs.com/temps/test.htm

Lisa

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Lisa Bradshaw ,  Web Designer

Crescendo Web Design - http://www.web-design-cs.com
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> >
> > <div>lots of text here</div>
> > <table border='1' align='right' width='150'>
> > <tr><td>Here is some text.Here is some text.Here is some text.Here is
some
> > text.Here is some text.</td></tr>
> > </table>
> > <div>this text will flow round the table..</div>
>
> I am actually slightly stunned by the effect. And after this many years of
> *PLAIN* *VANILLA* HTML I am *not* easily stunned. :)
>
> I admit I haven't used DIV any great extent, just once in a while when
> TABLE was 'overkill,' so I'm not familiar with most of its effects.
>
> How does that frigging thing WORK!? There are three block elements: DIV,
> TABLE, DIV. In fact
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-DIV says
>
>

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