- From: Corne Beerse <beerse@ats.nld.alcatel.nl>
- Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:44:52 +0100
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- CC: tony mollica <tmollica@silcom.com>, www-amaya@w3.org
Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > 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 Then, Why is it used in the Amaya startup page? Or is this your personal statement? > 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. It is done (with text buttons, but that's no problem) in the Amaya startup page! See the blue line at the bottom. file:${AMAYAHOME}/thot/amaya/AmayaPage.html, I could not find the page on http://www.w3.org/. > > 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. CB -- When I became a man, I put away childish things, including my fear of childishness, and the desire to be very grown up. - C. S. Lewis Corne' Beerse | Alcatel Telecom Nederland mailto:beerse@ats.nld.alcatel.nl | Postbus 3292 talkto:+31(70)3079108 faxto:+31(70)3079191 | NL-2280 GG Rijswijk
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