Like so                                                    fitty spaces for ya.

You really should read some form of HTML primer before building a site....like the aforementioned www.htmlgoodies.com . It will make a lot of this stuff easier to figure out.

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-"Reality" is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.

You can use the nbsp, but that doesn't display properly in every locale.

Transparent GIFs are good, they're called "spacers". You should only make them 1 pixel by 1 pixel, though, it's not necessary to make them any larger because you specify the height/width it's scaled to in the HTML code.

As for people using 15" monitors and shit resolution, I seriously have to question how up-to-date those stats are. But if they are, then screw those people, even most laptops are 1024x768 or above, even the library computers here are 1024x768... if someone's too bloody cheap to get a half-decent monitor, I wouldn't want to try and sell something to them anyway.

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yeah but still, its not because you have a 1024 width screen that you can display a full 1024 width page... thats why people still use 800 width pages because they look nice on a 1024 monitor...

but indeed they look small on a 1200 display :/

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Originally posted by DigiNut You can use the nbsp, but that doesn't display properly in every locale. Transparent GIFs are good, they're called "spacers". You should only make them 1 pixel by 1 pixel, though, it's not necessary to make them any larger because you specify the height/width it's scaled to in the HTML code. As for people using 15" monitors and shit resolution, I seriously have to question how up-to-date those stats are. But if they are, then screw those people, even most laptops are 1024x768 or above, even the library computers here are 1024x768... if someone's too bloody cheap to get a half-decent monitor, I wouldn't want to try and sell something to them anyway.

About the GIFs, I actually called them spacers without knowing what they shuold be called, cool.

Anyway, I don't care about the resolution right now. I just want to figure out how to pull this thing off. I mean I know there's a way to do it, I just have to find out.

ahlamalek, I don't know what you mean by the spaces between & n b s p or whatever. Where you just testing what I said?

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Originally posted by ahlamalek yeah but still, its not because you have a 1024 width screen that you can display a full 1024 width page... thats why people still use 800 width pages because they look nice on a 1024 monitor... but indeed they look small on a 1200 display :/

I'm doing my page 955 wide, so it still looks good on a 1024.

HTML doesn't care how many spaces there are on the document, it just renders one.

The only way to force it is using a non-breaking space:

 

so, if you want 5 spaces:      
(or just a regular space followed by 4 nbsps, or regular space, 3 nbsps, regular space, or alternate regular ones with nbsps ).

Although, you usually shouldn't need that kind of things.

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ok thanks, wasn't seeing that last night, way too tired...

for the spaces, I just used a 1x1 transparent pixel and stretched it accordingly, I figure that's better.

still, how do I solve this stupid problem where when the user changess the font text size in their browser, it spills over to a new line in the table... I basically want to make the text size unchangeable I guess.

Am I supposed to use pixels tod efine size, rather than percentage?

ugh, you're playing a dangerous game here...

the game of "html is a poor interfacing language"... in other word, try to put as little constraints as possible, fixing table widths, font sizes, colors, etc is very hard to maintain in the long run and could nice in one browser and awful in anoter.

if you want to fix a certain text element, use an image. But if you're talking about the main content of your webpage, don't fix its size. its not good HTMLing

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Set the text to wahtever size you want it to be, I don't think the viewers of your webpage can change that.

yes they can!

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Ok ahlamalek, so you're saying replace the buttons with images?

ugh