Spacing between menu items.

Re: Spacing between menu items.

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
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> At http://www.douglaidlaw.net/boykett/index.html I have a menu of buttons
> generated by a "self-serve" Web site. As originally supplied, all the
> buttons were in a block, hard up against each other. Now they are spaced
> out. I have tried using the "margin" CSS variable set to 0, but I can't
> have the syntax correct, because NVU keeps deleting what I write.
>
> Am I on the right track, or do I need to try something different?[/color]

What happens if you add this bit of code in the <head>:

<style type="text/css">
img{display:blo ck;}
</style>

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Re: Spacing between menu items.

Els wrote:
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> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
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>> At http://www.douglaidlaw.net/boykett/index.html I have a menu of buttons
>> generated by a "self-serve" Web site. As originally supplied, all the
>> buttons were in a block, hard up against each other. Now they are spaced
>> out. I have tried using the "margin" CSS variable set to 0, but I can't
>> have the syntax correct, because NVU keeps deleting what I write.
>>
>> Am I on the right track, or do I need to try something different?[/color]
>
> What happens if you add this bit of code in the <head>:
>
> <style type="text/css">
> img{display:blo ck;}
> </style>
>[/color]

It didn't seem to make any difference. The last item, which I made myself
and added, was hard up against the others, but had no <br> tag before it.
Stripping all the <br> tags fixed the spacing, but I expected that to make
the buttons try to align horizontally?

Doug.
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Re: Spacing between menu items.

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
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> Stripping all the <br> tags fixed the spacing, but I expected that to make
> the buttons try to align horizontally?[/color]

Not if the TD width is limited. Images wrap just like text. Maybe the
<br>s were the problem because the TD width was too narrow to have
them after each image?

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Re: Spacing between menu items.

Els wrote:
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> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
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>> Stripping all the <br> tags fixed the spacing, but I expected that to
>> make the buttons try to align horizontally?[/color]
>
> Not if the TD width is limited. Images wrap just like text. Maybe the
> <br>s were the problem because the TD width was too narrow to have
> them after each image?
>[/color]
That is probably the reason. I thought that the <br> tag was simply a
direction, and didn't itself take up any space at all, so I made the width
of the column equal to the width of a button. Things have certainly been
tightened up. I still recall the days when the table proportions would
ignore the stated dimensions and adjust themselves to accommodate the
images. At one stage within the last few days I had the opposite: the
picture of the ship was only half displayed because it was cut off at the
right-hand edge of the cell.

Thanks for all your help.

Doug.
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