"Lying" about image width and height is the web designer's BEST FRIEND. How
else can you get wonderfully big and colorful swathes of color at such a
bandwidth savings? Everyone should have a stable full of one-pixel gifs for
this kind of fun. I have a transparent one, and others in various shades of
grey, red, blue, etc. To keep them straight, I name them with their hex
value, like cccccc_1pix.gif. 

My transparent 1pix.gif has a file date of 1996, to show you how long I've
been using it.

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Chuck Evans
Web Marketing Manager
Captura Software, Inc.
(425) 424-1155
chucke(at)captura.com
www.captura.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Gerholdt [SMTP:gerholdt(at)fredonia.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, April 28, 2000 11:57 AM
> To:	Peter Benoit; 'Ben Ocean'; hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
> Subject:	Re: Spacer
> 
> > <IMG SRC="blank.gif" height=1 width=50>
>
> naughty, naughty.
> 
> <img src="blank.gif" alt="" height="1" width="1" hspace="25">
> 
> this gets you 51 pixels, though. if you need 50 spot-on, use an image that
> is actually 1 pixel high and 2 pixels wide, and then
> 
> <img src="blank.gif" alt="" height="1" width="2" hspace="24">
> 
> don't lie to browsers about the actual dimensions of an image. They aren't
> obligated to believe you - even if most do.

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