- From: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 23:38:25 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Gayle Kidder <reddik@thegroup.net>
- Cc: Charles Peyton Taylor <CTaylor@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>, www-style@w3.org
Gayle Kidder writes:
> Charles Peyton Taylor wrote:
>
> > But isn't it planned to add a "style' attribute
> > to all HTML elements?
> >
> > so one could do this:
> >
> > <P style="margin=5em"> Oh, happy blue dog </p>
> > <P style="margin=10em"> your ceasless wanderings inspire
> > Painters</p>
> >
> > and probably a lot more.
>
>
> Of course, that assumes you want the extra line spacing that <P> gives
> you. If not, you have to resort to something like this (which does just
> what it's supposed to in NSb5):
Actually, Charles' example would work just fine. The `extra line
spacing' is under the control of the style sheet. A style sheet that
emulates Netscape would indeed have
P { margin-top: 1em },
but if the style sheet had
P { margin-top: 0em }
instead, there wouldn't be any extra space between paragraphs.
> <P>in Just-<br>
> spring<SPACER TYPE="horizontal" SIZE=70> when the world is mud-<BR>
> luscious the little<br>
> lame baloonman
>
> <P>whistles<SPACER TYPE="horizontal" SIZE=50>far<SPACER
> TYPE="horizontal" SIZE=50>and wee
This spacing is indeed too irregular for CSS1. Some sort of mark-up
has to be in the HTML; a <SPAN> seems logical, but a <BR> would work
as well, and is shorter to type:-)
<style>
br.gap1 { display: inline; width: 7em }
br.gap2 { display: inline; width: 5em }
</style>
<p>in Just-<br>
spring<br class=gap1>when the world is mud-<br>
luscious the little<br>
lame baloonman
<p>whistles<br class=gap2>far<br class=gap2>and wee
I also replaced the 50px by 5em and the 70px by 7em. Pixels is not
really what you want here. I suspect 5em is closer to the author's
intention (but one would have to check the original to be sure).
> I admit SPACER is pretty clunky in there, but if anyone can tell me how
> to do that with a style sheet I'm all ears.
I bet DSSSL can do it without any SPACER or BR tags in the
document. Though the resulting style sheet might well be longer than
the poem itself...
Bert
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