Re: more css confusion

by David Jones <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>

 Date:  Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:35:34 -1000
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
 In-Reply-To:  verizon
  todo: View Thread, Original
Hmm, that would be annoying. Doesn't a paragraph align 
attribute override a table cell's align attribute?

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 17 Sep 2002, at 15:31, Karin Christensen wrote:

> Yes, but I don't necessarily want *everything* in the td
> centered  -- just the images. Karin
> 
> > What does:
> >
> > <tr valign="top">
> > <td align="center"><image tag here></td>
> > </tr>
> >
> > do?
> >
> > And which browser are you talking about? That quirk
> > sounds like a browser-specific thing to me.
> >
> > David
> > dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
> >
> > On 17 Sep 2002, at 13:05, Karin Christensen wrote:
> >
> > > And, I'm trying to be good little html girl and use
> > > the proper align tag, but it causes a problem in one
> > > instance where an image is at the top of a table cell
> > > and I want it centered.  If I use the <.p align =
> > > center> tag then the image drops down a bit from the
> > > top.  If I just use <.center> it goes back where I
> > > want it.  How do I get around that? Karin
> > >
> > >
> > > > On 16 Sep 2002, at 21:59, dale wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Also, I would be sure and close all my <.P> tags
> > > > > with a <./P>.  I think someone else mentioned that
> > > > > the <.center> tag is just a bastardized form of
> > > > > <.p align="center"> and is not valid code.
> > > >
> > > > Actually, Dale, I mentioned it. <center> is valid
> > > > code for the HTML 3.2 standard (or earlier, IIRC),
> > > > but not for newer ones. It predates use of
> > > > "align='center'", so I wouldn't describe it as
> > > > 'bastardized'. Better to say it is the ancestor of
> > > > the "center" attribute. IIRC, it actually dates back
> > > > to HTML v1 or 2, something like that.
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > > dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
 

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