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Posted by Aaron on 03/19/06 22:22
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
news:441daede$0$3704$cb0e7fc6@news.centralva.net...
> Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>>
>> [unholy scrapyard of </font> snipped...]
>>
>>> <hr align="left" color="#ff0000" width="70%">
>>>
>>> You could style your HR in a stylesheet with:
>>>
>>> HR { border: 1px solid #ff0000; #ff0000; width: 70%; margin-left: 0; }
>>
>> In theory, yes. When I tried this, some years ago, in the era when IE4
>> and NN4 still needed to be considered, I found that some browsers were
>> quite reluctant to style <hr> itself, and I finished up with a plan which
>> involved putting the <hr> (which I retained for fallback use when CSS was
>> unsupported or disabled) inside <div>, and using CSS for styling the
>> <div> (and for setting the hr width to 0 so that it didn't show). [1]
>
> I use to think that way of trying to fully accommodate 4x browsers until I
> started reviewing my traffic, <1% in fact in the .01% range! If it wall
> severely impair the page in these browsers a may add a conditional
> stylesheet that disables all the float and effect for them...No pretty but
> hey, then could upgrade.
>
>> Do we have current information on any residual problems with merely
>> styling the <hr> itself?
>
> Depends, if it fail, so what, just means the HR is not read and is
> 'groove' style. Not sure why the OP wants 70% width anyway.
>
>>> All the FONT junk isn't required
>>
>> Amen to that.
>>
>>
>> [1] if anyone's still interested in this history:
>> http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/hrstyle.html -
>> but the content hasn't been substantively revised since 2002 or so.
>
> If he redoes his page and used stylesheet in addition tom being easier to
> maintain and change but the markup will be nearly reduced my half.
>
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
> -------------------
> LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
> http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
Funny you should suggest the style sheet, I totally agree.
This is my next version. I am just trying to learn HTML the hard way.
http://www.garyluttrell.com/step3.htm
The Declaration fixed the "_" on my May & Directions image.
I have a lot to learn.
Thanks
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