[thelist] Moving away from layout tables

Craig Saila crsaila at yahoo.ca
Thu May 30 12:39:01 CDT 2002


Steve Lewis wrote:
> That seems non-intuitive when other inline tags, <em> for instance, do
> not create a staircase effect.  Anyone have any insights about why this
> is the case?

You're right, inline elements should lay side-by-side.

But this example was an inline element with two lines separated by a
<br> so that's why it doesn't work like that (it isn't a true staircase,
BTW, but it's close).

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Cheers,

Craig Saila
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