[thelist] aligning text within inline elements

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 26 17:31:00 CDT 2002


--- "Means, Eric D" <eric.d.means at boeing.com> wrote:
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From: 	Tom Dell'Aringa [mailto:pixelmech at yahoo.com]
> > As we've seen on some recent emails, text-align works well for
> > aligning text in block level elements. My problem is this: I have
> > this type of thing happening --
> >
> > ..wrapper tables and stuff
> > <tr>
> > <td>
> >
> > <span>A Title Word</span> <span>Links</span>
> >
> > </td>
> > </tr>
> >
> > I need to get my Title word aligned LEFT, and my Links aligned
> RIGHT.
>
> In the CSS for the left span:
> span.left {
>   float: left;
>   width: 49%;
> }
> For the right span:
> span.right {
>   float: right;
>   width: 49%;
> }
>
> (the widths should not add to 100% because IE's fudgy box model
> gets screwy,
> but 98% works AFAIK.  If you need one span or the other larger,
> just change
> the %s appropriately; 69%/29%, for instance).

That works great - as you said I just need to mess with the span
percentages. Thanks Eric!

Tom

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