Posted by Jim Michaels on 02/04/06 07:34

"Chris Kettenbach" <chris@piasd.org> wrote in message
news:1-Gdne7OxfB93k7cRVn-hg@giganews.com...
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I have run in to a small problem. I am working in a table cell. I want to
> put two elements inline. This first is a large font single charcter 1. I
> want this to be like 30px wide font size 36pix. Immeditely following this
> element I want another inline element on the same line that will have a
> couple lines of text in a much smaller and different color font. I can
> accomplish pretty much what I want with a style rule something like this.
>
> .bignum{background-color:crimson;
> color:cornsilk;
> font-family:tahoma;
> font-size:36px;
> font-weight:bold;
> text-align:center;
> width:30px;
> float:left;
> }
>
> My problem is that this element's height does not grow to the height of
> the
> next inline element?

before you want the numbers to go down in size. now you want them to go up?

As more text is added to the element I would like the
> number box to grow accordingly, just in height not font effectively making
> this element the same height of the adjacent element. Does anyone know
> the
> solution?

tried nested spans, one as a container. the background colors showed me that
the inner spans differed in height. I don't see how you are going to do
it. if you are worried about the table causing a line break, try
float:left.
I don't know how else you are going to do it. table seems to work best.

<span><span style="background-color:#3366CC;font-size:36px;">1</span><span
style="background-color:#CC99FF;font-size:48px;">2</span></span>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td
style="background-color:#3366CC;font-size:36px;">1</td><td
style="background-color:#CC99FF;font-size:48px;">2</td></tr></table>

I am trying to avoid inserting a table but the effect would be
> like a single row table with 2 columns and the cell heights are the same
> width10% & width90% with different background colors. Thanks Everybody.
>
> Chris
>
>
>

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