Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/04/05 04:05

michele@quality-computing.com wrote:
> Thanks. Lots of helpful advice and I'm a bit closer to knowing what
> I'm doing instead of guessing. I plan to take a course soon.
>
> One thing though. You pointed me to some articles and one at
> http://phrogz.net/CSS/HowToDevelopWithCSS.html#tables was very helpful,
> but it says limit use of <br> tags. I'd die without my <br>s because I
> design for IE, FireFox and Netscape and the line spacing comes out way
> different depending upon your browser. Any advice on that and I'd save
> a lot of guess and by golly.
Yes style the margin-top and|or the margin-bottom of the block element.
>
> Also, I changed all my stylesheet font sizes to ems and I got giganta
> font.
>
an 'em' is the width of the font's letter M so 15em would be the 15 x
width of the font's M, in other words, *really big*. Try decimal values
for subtler results, 1.5em

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Jonathan
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