Posted by Keith Cochrane on 08/09/06 02:32

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Steve Pugh <steve@pugh.net> scripsit:
>
> >>> '<img ... height="100%" ...>' doesn't mean what you think it means.
> >>
> >> <IMG align=left alt="left bar" border=0 height="100%" hspace=0
> >> src="rverticalbar.png" width=30>
> >> I thought it meant 100% of the page height, (or in the case of
> >> tables, 100% of the available row height)?
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> > Start using CSS and use background images instead.

But I really and truely hate CSS. I wrote my own software that uses its
own type of style sheets and would like to keep things as simple as
possible for future users.

> That sounds like a good idea, especially for an image that is supposed to
> act as just as a divider - a decorative horizontal rule, in a sense.

Horizontal or vertical works. I used to have text and a search box
within the horizontal divider at the bottom of the page, but I removed
it. I'm working on something else that's taking up nearly all my free
time at the moment, but I hope to redo the whole site in a few months.

> Actually, if such a divider is the most prominent graphic feature of a page,
> the design is somewhat odd, and removing the divider or replacing with a
> simple styled <hr> might be an improvement.
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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I was thinking that someone using the same idea I had, could make a
real nice barbershop style pole on each side of the page without having
to use a huge graphic, just a small one that repeats in each row space.
It might look different in different browsers, but it should still look
like a barbershop, (ecept in E.I. 6.0).

Keith.

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