Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:27 am Post subject: Help Philip, code still not working!
Philip,
Thanks for your suggestion re: the float tag, however it still isn't working. In fact, the picture now sits on the left side of the page and nothing I do will make it display on the right. The text still does not wrap.
Can you see what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks again,
Patti
<p align="left"><b><h3>Wild West Party Crafts - </h3></b>
By the way, is there any way to make the border thinner? I am just using a "1" value, but for some reason it is thicker than I usually get when building a table or bordering an image.
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:02 pm Post subject:
Float really isn't a tag of the Table (or anything else). It is a CSS tag.
In Philips example, he is using inline CSS. You can use an external CSS file as well (recommended for ease of updating). But I would get things working the way you want now, and then worry about moving your CSS around later on. _________________ Eric D. Burdo They Made $6,513 a day With Clickbank Doing This...
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject:
Patti,
Your source code is going to start to look like a mess if you keep making individual changes but here is the CSS style for controlling the border of the table: style="border-width: 1px solid;"
You can add it to the float style so that it looks like this: style="float: left; border-width: 1px solid;"
Then, delete the border="1" attribute.
When you have time, you should try to learn about cascading style sheets--there are couple of books I recommend on my blog under the "Tableless Designs" entry you can check out. CSS will make your coding faster, easier and cleaner, and updating will be a simple task.
I'm not sure if SBI allows you to upload your own external CSS (it should), otherwise you can use inline CSS (like what I've been suggesting to you above and in my previous post).
I'm not sure if SBI allows you to upload your own external CSS
You can if you upload you own HTML pages, but not if you use the builder (which doesn't allow access to the <head> where you need to specify the source of the external CSS file).
The only (messy) hack I can think up, would be to try and simulate external CSS using inline CSS within a set of of external JS files (which could be accessed from within the <body> using the builder).
This might help with site-wide changes, but the problem is, if you were happy to do this, you'd probably be happy to upload your own HTML in the first place.
All in all, if you are using the builder, the only little bits of CSS you need worry about will fit happily inline. Don't get too hung up on the "pretty" factor...
As long as it looks decent, your writing will matter much more.
Hope this helps,
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject: Thanks again for the CSS code
Hi Philip,
Thanks for the CSS code to amend the table border. I read a bit from one of the books you recommended on your blog - Wow, CSS seems a bit above me at this point in time!
For now, I'll just limp along with the html and hope I don't mess anything up too badly for the long term.
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