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Thanks for the tip--tP, is it? ...

I'll standardize Soup's method and add it to HTML hints--he's using the colspan tag.

I just caught this first bit. Is "CalGal" speculating on my identity and gender? Isn't that a little unfair when she reportedly has access to the user database?

And it's not the "colspan" tag. Uhh, look closer.

359. CalGal - 9/28/1999 1:36:28 AM

And then, every so often, there's one on the list that stayed under the radar. One of these movies is The Third Man, which is often described as the greatest movie you've never heard of. It is hard to categorize--it fits the bill nicely as film noir, a mystery, a love story,or a devastatingly accurate commentary on post-war Europe--and this may be why it has not remained as widely known as other great movies from the 40s. Happily, it has been refurbished and rereleased on its 50th anniversary to quite a bit of attention--critics have been very happy to see its return and have made much fuss.

360. CalGal - 9/28/1999 1:41:16 AM

Hey, cool. I was misled by the other tags that showed up in your post and hadn't had time to play with it.

Much easier, if I understand it--you just align the table left and the text wraps. Thanks. PP, do you see that?

And tP--if that's not it, there's no need to keep everyone else guessing. Just explain it.

And I would hardly need access to the user database to make a least a decent guess about your identity.

361. SoupIsGoodFood - 9/28/1999 1:59:02 AM

I've taken my query to the "Policy" thread.

362. Dusty - 9/28/1999 2:17:10 AM

oupIsGoodFood

Isn't that a little unfair when she reportedly has access to the user database?

?? I don't think so. Where did you see this report?

BTW, thanks for the help in giving us new tools to improve our look. Many of us are HTML neophytes, and it is nice to hear from people with experience.

363. Nostradamus - 9/28/1999 2:21:33 AM

364. pellenilsson - 9/28/1999 3:02:00 PM

CalGal

Will you please explain this text wrapping thing in full?

365. CalGal - 9/29/1999 2:59:09 AM

Pelle,

Sure.

< table align="left" > < tr > < td >< img src="http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/david_g/flight_to_egypt.jpg" > < /td > < /tr > < /table > and then you go on with
your text.



and then you go on with your text, and btw, this is a simply lovely painting.

what happens with a paragraph?
and then you go on with your text, and btw, this is a simply lovely painting. How does it work to the right?

366. PsychProf - 9/29/1999 3:15:45 AM

Cal...I pasted your command into dust, and it didn't work...what am I doing incorrectly?

367. CalGal - 9/29/1999 3:55:44 AM

Prof--did you take out the spaces? I put the spaces before and after the brackets so that it isn't processed as HTML.

Also, I got carried away--the example tags don't include the second image, which is valign=right.

I am tied up at work and wasn't clear. Sorry about that.

368. Dusty - 9/29/1999 4:07:45 AM

test1

< FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#7FFFD4" >test2< /FONT >

< FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#7FFFD4">test3< /FONT >

369. Dusty - 9/29/1999 4:15:44 AM

HINT

Just for general knowledge—if you want to explain to someone how to code some HTML, you cannot simply show the information literallly, or it will be "processed". There are two alternatives:

1. Enter the code exactly, but add a space after the first angle bracket. Some also add a space before the closing bracket, but my test above shows it isn't necessary
2. You can insert a special character to print angle brackets, that will not be processed as if they are angle brackets. & lt (without the space) will display as the angel bracket that, guess what, looks like the less than symbol, and & gt (again without the space) will look like the greater than symbol.
   

370. dusty - 9/29/1999 9:43:23 AM

test

371. dusty - 9/29/1999 10:21:37 AM

test 2

372. dusty - 9/29/1999 10:25:26 AM

Of course, I figure out how to do this, then realize it is similar to what PP's been doing for some time.

373. dusty - 9/29/1999 10:30:52 AM

In another thread, pellenilsson asked how to display a large picture one that would mess up the margin. One solution, discussed above, is to resize the picture so that it fits. But what if that isn't sufficient? What if it would be too cramped if stuffed within the margins? The good news is that the answer is simple.

Create a small thumbnail with a link to the actual picture. I did it in post #371, and below I will show the commands (with the extra space after the angle bracket show it will display rather than execute.)


test 2
< A HREF="http://farnsworthmuseum.org/acrown.jpg">
< IMG HEIGHT=50 WIDTH=50 SRC="http://farnsworthmuseum.org/acrown.jpg">< /A>

374. dusty - 9/29/1999 10:34:42 AM

test with pelle's large image from before

375. pellenilsson - 9/29/1999 6:39:20 PM

This is a combination of CalGal's and dusty's tricks. If you click on the thumbnail you will be taken to the full picture which is Lot and his daughter (yes, depraved stuff) by Altdorfer, 1537.

376. pellenilsson - 9/29/1999 6:42:28 PM

It didn't work at all. Have to reconsider.

377. pellenilsson - 9/29/1999 6:45:08 PM

a href="http://www.artchive.com/artchive/A/altdorfer/lot.jpg"> Now I have taken away the table tags.

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