[thelist] image in <p> (was "random image...")
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 3 09:13:05 CDT 2000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erika Meyer
>
> you may be right, but I had some bad experiences
> with NN4 and images
> in the <p> tag back in '99. actually, I had bad
> experiences with NN4
> and images in a <div> as well:
> http://haughey.com/csshorrors/ (image
> float problem)
>
> but lately it's worked for me. (*knocks on
> wood*) (maybe NN4.7 is better now?)
my guess is that it's related to the 'line-height' attribute in CSS... try the same page
without it, and it should work...
at least, that's what all my testing determined...
> Why is it bad to use <div></div>?
it's not, it just offers no contextual indicator whatsoever... a <p> at least says,
"hey, i'm a paragraph, treat me like one," while a <div> says "hey, i'ma block-level
element of a generic nature, i have no idea what purpose i serve, but the CSS
will at least make me look pretty..."
to me it's akin to using <span> instead of <strong>...
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