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Deena - Oct 11, 2007 2:01:32 pm PDT #3020 of 25497
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

.image_right is the name of the class so it has to be in the code for the image. (left caret img class="image_right" src="nameofimage.gif" other attributes right caret)

margins and padding affect different browsers differently, IE6 padding affects margins; firefox it's hard to tell that padding's doing anything (imo); so it's best to play with them both.

I could very well be wrong, but I believe margin is supposed to mean the space between things, five pixels between divs; and padding is the space around things, that is five pixels added to the outside of text within a div (or I could have that entirely backwards). It doesn't really work like that though. So, yeah, fiddle.


Ginger - Oct 11, 2007 2:09:23 pm PDT #3021 of 25497
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

As Deena says, margin is outside the element and padding is inside the element.

In the case of the contact box, though, it's inside the div that sets the text width, so it's going to have to be moved out of that div and positioned absolutely, probably. I didn't really do much with the table, which looks like it might have been picked up from somewhere else.


Deena - Oct 11, 2007 2:14:43 pm PDT #3022 of 25497
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Thanks Ginger. You said it much more clearly.

I went and looked at your source code and I see what Ginger means. It's not quite state-of-the-art, though tables do put things where you want them, usually.


beekaytee - Oct 11, 2007 2:37:22 pm PDT #3023 of 25497
Compassionately intolerant

As Deena says, margin is outside the element and padding is inside the element.

I had it completely opposite in my mind. Thanks for the clarification.

I'm off to play with the new knowledge. I'll be back...


Glamcookie - Oct 11, 2007 2:42:18 pm PDT #3024 of 25497
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

So it looks like Miss Edith (my iPod) does have the album art but when I play a song on her when in iTunes, the art doesn't show up. Bizarreness. But hey, at least it's working!


lisah - Oct 12, 2007 6:24:23 am PDT #3025 of 25497
Punishingly Intricate

hey, does anyone use Robohelp regularly? or know enough about it to answer stupid questions? Their "help" has been no use to me.

I have to format a boatload of topics in RoboHelp and I did take a class but it was 3 maybe 4 years ago so, useless.

I've figured out how to creat styles, like in Word, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to friggin' set tabs. WTF? TABBING! It's so basic and it aludes me and my life will be hellish if I can't figure it out. Anybody know what the secret is?


Dana - Oct 12, 2007 6:25:11 am PDT #3026 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I used to, lisah, but it's been a while. Is this RoboHelp HTML? Because if that's the case, maybe you can't actually set tab stops?


lisah - Oct 12, 2007 6:26:44 am PDT #3027 of 25497
Punishingly Intricate

Is this RoboHelp HTML?

It is.

Because if that's the case, maybe you can't actually set tab stops?

whuh? Why??? How am I supposed to format it nicely without setting tabs? This is going to make me cry I just know it.


Dana - Oct 12, 2007 6:32:27 am PDT #3028 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I don't have access to the program, so don't take this as gospel. I might be completely wrong. But something like setting tab stops makes sense in a word processing application. I don't know if it's something that you do in HTML.

When you insert a tab in your document, can you switch to HTML view and see the code that it's using for the tab?


lisah - Oct 12, 2007 6:42:40 am PDT #3029 of 25497
Punishingly Intricate

When you insert a tab in your document, can you switch to HTML view and see the code that it's using for the tab?

Not in Word, I don't think. At least I can't figure it out.

man, I knew this wasn't going to be easy but then was lulled into a false sense of security by the Word-like Style menus. frick frick frick