Posted by Jennyvision on 01/25/06 15:11

"dorayme" <doraymebutuse777insubjectline@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> In article <_qCBf.15590$Zj7.2474@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
> "Jennyvision" <nospam@die.spam> wrote:
>
>> "dorayme" <doraymebutuse777insubjectline@optusnet.com.au> wrote in
>> message
>
>> > "Jennyvision" <nospam@die.spam> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi still feeling my way along with HTML and Javascript
>> >>
>> >> I've encountered a small spacing problem ...
>> >>
>> >> http://www.good4mail.com/TempTest/_Template.htm
>> >>
>
>> > For a start, you need to do the basics, a document type
>> > declaration, a head, a title in the head and so on.... You can't
>> > just leave all this stuff out and expect things to work right.
>> >
>
>> > There are mistakes in your css all over... you have to put the
>> > unit in for margins and stuff, like "1px" and not " 1 " and so on
>> > and so forth.
>> >
>> > You better look at any basic html and css tutes and read from the
>> > very beginning.
>> >
>> > I would say to forget about javascript for now till you come up
>> > to speed on the basics.
>> >
>> > --
>> > dorayme
>>
>> It's actually not for a website, it's for an eBay auction template, so
>> the
>> whole top section get stripped, so I didn't include it.
>> I thought 'px' was the default unit. It seems to work that way for
>> Netscape, IE, Opera and Firefox. Is there a browser for which this isnt
>> true? Or is it simply good form to include it?
>
> I did not pick up the bit about eBay, template, not a website? So
> forgive me.

I don't think I ever mentioned it initially, so my bad :)

> It is more than just good form I think, to use units in css in
> things like margins. It is part of the standard used in css, it
> is not optional. Better not to leave them out and then worry what
> old or present or new browsers for what platform or other might
> be forgiving of this omission.

Extremely good point. Another good example of why I should really learn HTML
and not rely so heavily on FrontPage.
Thank you.

Jenny

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