[thelist] aligning text within inline elements

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 26 17:49:01 CDT 2002


Jon, that as they say "is the ticket." Thanks.

Tom
--- Jonathan_A_McPherson at rl.gov wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Read this article:
> http://www.alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/
>
> Towards the end, there is a section entitled "Splitting the
> Difference" that
> describes how to do exactly what you are trying to do. (If you have
> time,
> the entire article is an excellent primer on using CSS to do stuff
> you'd
> ordinarily want a table to do.)
>
> HTH,
> Jonathan.
>
> PS. Like the gospel presentation on your blog. (-:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Dell'Aringa [mailto:pixelmech at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:16 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] aligning text within inline elements
>
>
> 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.
> I cannot use another TD cell to do this, because the way the tables
> around it are layed out, you get a 'border' showing for the
> cellspacing which I cannot have (its a nested table with a grey
> background essentially).
>
> Ideas on how to do this?
>
> I'd rather not put yet another table inside that cell merely to
> accomplish this, but I will if I have to.
>
> (FYI, Full blown CSS isn't remotely an option here, this is a
> hugely
> frames and table heavy application...ugh.)
>
> Tom
>
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