- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 00:13:33 -0500 (EST)
- To: tony mollica <tmollica@silcom.com>
- cc: www-amaya@w3.org
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 --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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