Re: layer borders

>The problem is that it puts in this annoying space
>between the background color and the border

This is a 'bug' with the Netscape operating system and the way it handles
flow objects. It does it for the CSS background-color property as well.

Frank

Frank Boumphrey
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Medendorp <medendob@lahs.losalamos.k12.nm.us>
To: www-html@w3.org <www-html@w3.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 1:41 PM
Subject: layer borders


> I am trying to make a layer that has text in it, with a backgound
>color and a border. The problem is that it puts in this annoying space
>between the background color and the border. I want the background color
>to extent to the beginning of the border, but I get this white space that
>I can't get rid of. I have tried seeting the margin and padding values,
>but they won't fix the problem. This is the code that I am using:
><HTML>
>  <HEAD>
>    <TITLE></TITLE>
>    <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
>      #item {
> width: 120;
> color: black;
> font-size: 12pt;
> font-weight: normal;
> font-style: normal;
> font-family: sans-serif;
> border-width: 1;
> border-color: black;
> border-style: solid;
> line-height: normal;
> background-color: gray;
>      }
>    </STYLE>
>  </HEAD>
>  <BODY BGCOLOR="white">
>    <DIV ID="item">this is a layer!</DIV>
>  </BODY>
></HTML>
>
>Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
>                                         - [3rian  :)
>
>"C'mon, there will be people to mock."
> -Jerry Seinfeld
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 8 July 1998 17:43:49 UTC