Re: amaya formatting ?

There isn't a really good way to do this in HTML.

The trick that people use is to make a table, and use centred alignment in
each of the cells. The cells then auto-size in many browsers, which
provides even spacing. But using tables for layout in this way is not
realy what they were meant for, and can raise accessibility problems. (For
a fuller discussion see
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-19990226. My short version is
"don't use tables for layout". Which is actually listed as a checkpoint in
the guidelines.) An alternative would be to use display:float in a
stylesheet, but I haven't tried to do that in amaya yet, so I don't know
how you do it or whether it is implemented.

Charles McCathieNevile

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, tony mollica wrote:

  Hi. This may not be the forum for this but
  I'd like to try anyway.  I'm trying to use
  amaya 1.4a and what I'd like to do is set
  up a row of buttons (.gif's) spaced evenly
  across the page but after I insert the 
  button images and the spaces to separate them,
  re-loading the page eliminates the spaces 
  between the images.
  
  I thought I saw something on this some time
  back, but I'm unable to find it now.  Any
  suggestions to get this to work would be
  appreciated, especially if there is a  better
  way to do this.
  
  
  thanks,
  -- 
  
  tony mollica
  tmollica@silcom.com
  

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