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Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions
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Greg Marr |
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Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions |
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Mon, 08 Mar 1999 17:30:01 -0500 |
At 10:13 AM 3/8/99 , Chuck Martin wrote:
>Another thing that isn't forbidden, but lynx doesn't do properly in
>my opinion, is <CENTER> or <DIV>.
I am assuming you mean CENTER or DIV within PRE. If so, then they are most
explicitly forbidden. CENTER and DIV are block-level elements, and PRE can
only contain a subset of the inline elements.
>Now you may think that centering
>text defeats the purpose of <PRE>, but I don't think so.
It does in that one of the purposes of PRE is to "preserve constant line
spacing and column alignment for text rendered in a fixed-pitch font."
However, if it centers the block of text instead of each line of text, then the
formatting is preserved.
>If you pad
>the shorter lines with spaces so that all of the lines are the same
>length, you should be able to center a block of text without destroying
>the formatting. This could be desireable if your preformatted block is
>composed of many short lines (20 to 30 characters per line, for example).
>Netscape will center the block properly (NS actually centers the text
>line by line), but lynx turns off the preformatting if it finds such tags.
Make sure you have the tags nested properly.
<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<PRE>
Text here
</PRE>
</DIV>
Any other ordering is invalid HTML and subject to error recovery.
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Greg Marr
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Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions - elements in PRE, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/07
Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions, David Woolley, 1999/03/08
Re: lynx-dev Vlad's report - lss glitches, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/07
Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly, Vlad Harchev, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly, Vlad Harchev, 1999/03/15
- Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/16
- Multiple command-line URL's (was: Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly), Michael Warner, 1999/03/16
- lynx-dev Re: Multiple command-line URL's, Philip Webb, 1999/03/17
- Re: Multiple command-line URL's (was: Re: lynx-dev When unhighlighting some highlighted links, lynx draws them incorrectly), Ismael Cordeiro, 1999/03/17
- lynx-dev Re: Multiple command-line URL's, Michael Warner, 1999/03/17