- From: Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 10:30:57 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 3:46p 05/19/96, Thomas van Gulick wrote:
>I know, actually what I want is not a table, it is something like a profile
>in the form:
>
>Name : xyz
>Age : 201
>City : aabbcc
>
>etc. Previously I did it with <PRE></PRE>, but I don't like the fixed
>font and thus tried out <TABLE></TABLE> with CELLPADDING, CELLSPACING and
>BORDER set to 0, but this resulted in 'sticky' columns ie, the result for
>the above table would be:
>
>Namexyz
>Age 201
>Cityaabbcc
Put the colons in a column by themselves, like so:
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr><td>Name<td> : <td>xyz
<tr><td>Age<td> : <td>201
<tr><td>City<td> : <td>aabbcc
</table>
In place of you could also pick up dot_clear.gif from dsiegel.com
(if you don't already have a clear, transparent gif) and use like so:
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr><td>Name<td><IMG SRC="gifs/dot_clear.gif" width=8 height=1
align=bottom ALT="">:<IMG SRC="gifs/dot_clear.gif"
width=8 height=1 align=bottom alt=""><td>xyz
<tr><td>Age<td><IMG SRC="gifs/dot_clear.gif" width=8 height=1
align=bottom alt="">:<IMG SRC="gifs/dot_clear.gif"
width=8 height=1 align=bottom alt=""><td>201
<tr><td>City<td><IMG SRC="gifs/dot_clear.gif" width=8 height=1
align=bottom alt="">:<IMG SRC="gifs/dot_clear.gif"
width=8 height=1 align=bottom alt=""><td>aabbcc
</table>
The reason I use the width attribute on a clear gif rather than using the
width attribute for a cell, is that it will work with AOL's (InterCon's)
just-released browser, which although it finally "supports" tables, it
ignores specified widths. Besides, this method lets you specify "lopsided"
positioning of the colons within the cell. :-)
-Walter
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Received on Sunday, 19 May 1996 13:31:10 UTC