Posted by d on 09/28/71 11:42

"Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "Newbie Supreme" <newbiesupreme@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>> Aren't those corners and sides actually images? I was under the
>> impression that all these boxes with drop-shadows, rounded corners,
>> beveled or embossed adges, etc., were a series of table cells surrounding
>> the text with pieced-together bits of the whole image. I do this quite a
>> bit, as I'm a fan of the overdone embossing. If there's actually an
>> asier way, I would love to hear about it.
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> I'm doing it with teble cells: http://www.glbasic.com/main.php?site=about
> but I got spanked, that it's toally old fashioned. I should use CSS and
> DIVs. However, I never found a good tutorial about this div/span things...

only use DIVs if you have a good reason. CSS is woefully unsupported across
the major browsers, leaving the need for masses of hacks and non-standard
trickery.

tables are still very useful.

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