Posted by dorayme on 03/29/07 04:07

In article <et7m0392mkucu54hv00t5qj10q78kmde9l@4ax.com>,
Cogito <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:

> For a chess puzzle that I'm working on at the moment, I need to
> display a chessboard with several queens on it. The chessboard is an
> html table and the queens are represented by the character '*'.
> This part is now working well.
>
> In order to embellish the appearance of the chessboard I searched the
> internet and found a set of free chess fonts.
>
> My problem is that I don't know how to select the queen character from
> the chess fonts to replace the '*'. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

If you want a chess puzzle (and the graphic is not so bad), look
at:

<http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/binHassad/missingKing.ht
ml>

If it is scaling you want, (a table will only scale the non
images normally anyway), there is a simple way and reasonably
good in many modern browsers. Prepare a reasonably big graphic
and give it dimensions in %s in css not in the html.

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dorayme

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