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esse - Feb 01, 2007 6:14:31 am PST #528 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Oh my god, I love this: [link]

Steampunk lightsaber!


flea - Feb 01, 2007 7:00:51 am PST #529 of 25496
information libertarian

I have an HTML question. I am taking this page [link] and moving it into our CMS. To do that, I have to change the table width from 700 to 550, since our CMS requires content fit in the correct sized box.

When I change the table width, the hand-coded, using 'div class' tags, spacing gets frelled up. (It comes out like this: [link] ) Is there any way to fix this other than going in to each example and counting the spaces required and moving the hand-coded tags? This is one page of about 20, each with about 10 exmples, that I need to move.

Or should I thow myself on the mercy of our in-house web developers?


Ginger - Feb 01, 2007 7:23:25 am PST #530 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The odd jumps to the next line seem to be caused by a div starting at that point. On most entries, the div class "apa" opens and closes, and then opens again to cause the line break. It's made fuzzier by the font size not being part of the div class.


flea - Feb 01, 2007 7:26:09 am PST #531 of 25496
information libertarian

The guy who originally coded it is an asshole, if that matters.

Can I just strip out the whole div thing and put in ' ' spaces by hand? I'm thinking that would be easier. I can't imagine why he used a div in the first place.


Dana - Feb 01, 2007 7:27:15 am PST #532 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The guy who originally coded it is an asshole, if that matters.

t snork


Typo Boy - Feb 01, 2007 7:45:11 am PST #533 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

So, did he create one div class with a single number of spaces, and then use that class everywhere he needed that number of spaces?

Or did overwrite the class, and hand code a number of spaces each time? The second sounds a lot more assholeish, so I assume that is what happened.


Ginger - Feb 01, 2007 7:46:11 am PST #534 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

So now I can say he's an incompetent asshole? Why don't I e-mail what to do? Profile addy good?


flea - Feb 01, 2007 7:48:07 am PST #535 of 25496
information libertarian

Yes, thank you.


Deena - Feb 01, 2007 7:59:01 am PST #536 of 25496
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Gar, I found a couple of things that might be useful:

FrontPage solution: [link]
A "software tool": [link]


Ginger - Feb 01, 2007 8:15:54 am PST #537 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Flea, insent.