[thelist] setting a small size for a div or span

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

No, actually I think I was not very clear - let me rephrase.

I want to use a DIV or SPAN as a really small "graphical" element on a page. Basically, like 10 x
8 pixels in size TOTAL. It would have a background color and would be visible as basically a small
square.

The issue is, once I get to about 12 x 12 or so, I cannot seem to set it any smaller. The last
couple of pixels make all the difference to what I need to do.

I tried using clipping, which doesn't seem to work for some reason, and setting margin and border
to 0px which does not help either. I'm just wondering if this is a limitation of the DIV or CSS,
like some minimum size, but that seems odd to me.

Tom
--- Bret Daniel <BDaniel at Chemnavigator.com> wrote:
> Hi tom,
>
> is that for character height???
>
> if so..  I have managed to get smaller hieghts with divs by placing a <BR>
> at the end of the text or graphic
>
> <DIV style="<< CSS stuff >>">text<BR></DIV>
>
> hope that helps
>
> -Bret
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Dell'Aringa [mailto:pixelmech at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] setting a small size for a div or span
>
>
> There seems to be a limit to the size you can set a DIV or SPAN. I want to
> set one to about 12 x
> 8, but it seems like once I get to around 10 or 12, it won't go any smaller.
> Is this simply the
> limit of how small you can set the element? Or is there some padding/border
> issues that I have to
> set to make it smaller?
>
> Tom
>
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