- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:44:43 +0200
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:23:37 +0200, Brenton Strine <Brenton.Strine at citrix.com> wrote: > The purpose of this tag is to expand that which contains > it as if it were full of text. I have seen many websites > where the designers were forced to put long strings of > hidden text into a cell in order to make it expand > correctly. Thus text browsers find strange segments like > this: > > w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w > > Of course, developers already have the ability to specify > the width in terms of pixels, ems, percent, and tons of > other stuff. But there are times, particularly in fluid > design, when you can't get the div to work the way you > want without text to expand it. Whenever it's impossible to use CSS to specify the width, it's CSS that should be fixed, not HTML. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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