Posted by Sparky on 10/17/07 21:52

start simple...start easy...
if the book has examples try copying them down and opening them...
then try changing parts of the code, may be a color or the size of a
cell, or even just the text in a link


On Oct 17, 3:21 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net>
wrote:
> liszt...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
> > i have learned css /html for 2 weeks and still don't dare to write a
> > line of code... kind of shyness, drives me nuts. Too many things to
> > remember. too many details
>
> Many you should start simply and after your gain some experience try for
> more ambitious projects.
>
>
>
> > I wanted to build a list in a vertical navigation bar, 2 items with
> > text and a flag on the left.
>
> Okay.
> Style:
>
> ul.navbar { margin:0 padding:0; list-style: none; }
>
> <ul class="navbar">
> <li>
> <img src="flag.gif" alt="a flag">
> <a href="http//:www.example.com/hither.html">Hither</a>
> </li>
> <li>
> <img src="flag.gif" alt="a flag">
> <a href="http//:www.example.com/yonder.html">Yonder</a>
> </li>
> </ul>
>
> > -the text has background color, so how will the flags been aligned
> > perfectly to the decoration ?
>
> What decoration? As above, they would be on the same line...
>
> IF you want the images aligned to the top of the text then...
>
> ul.navbar li img { vertical-align: top; }
>
> > -if i use images, i can't change the color on fly, and i have to print
> > text inside the images at constant (abolute) place... since i'm too
> > lazy, it's not done yet.
>
> What color?
>
>
>
> > ImageMagik have a nice text to image feature, well it could save some
> > code.
>
> > maybe tables ?
>
> How will that help?
>
> Maybe you should give it your best shot at what you are trying to do
> upload to your server and post the url here. We might be better able to
> assist.
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
> -------------------
> LITTLE WORKS STUDIOhttp://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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