[thelist] Buttons

Aylard JA (James) jaylard at equilon.com
Tue May 30 17:23:47 2000


Kev,

> Is there any
> way of defining the colour of buttons in HTML, I've tried "color=green"
and
> "bgcolor=green" but with an unremarkable lack of success. Am I attempting
> the impossible again?

	Style sheets will work in IE4+. Define a class for your buttons and
specify a background-color of whatever you like.

> Oh, just thought of another query. When I look at my
> pages in Netscape, where I have used "&nbsp" as a spacer it 
> shows up on the screen. How can you make spaces in Netscape?

	It's probably looking for the closing semi-colon (IE renders named
entities without it, which can cause problems from time to time). IOW, write
it out as   .

hth,
James Aylard
jaylard@equilon.com