- From: gary turner <gary.kk5st@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:44:24 -0500
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > 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. > That functionality is well supported x-browser with css. cheers, gary
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