[thelist] HTML/Browser question

David Dorward evolt at david.us-lot.org
Sat Jul 10 02:50:20 CDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 01:46, Don Pasewark wrote:
> I built a site using the following tag for a vertical rule:
> <img src="art/10x10rule.gif" width="10" height="100%" alt="rule">
> 
> I'm using it on http://www.norcalmc.com

I don't know why that is causing you problems in MSIE but ...

You don't appear to understand alt. Its "alternative" not "description".

<http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/alt/alt-text.html>

<http://www.accessibility.nl/cgi-bin/lynx.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.norcalmc.com%2F&marquee=>

As for the image, it looks like its just a narrow one pixel wide grey
line. So you might as well use CSS to selectively apply borders to
elements and save yourself a great deal of markup - which has syntax
errors BTW:

<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.norcalmc.com/>
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David Dorward       <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>   <http://dorward.me.uk/>



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