The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Friday, July 12, 2002

Them darned fancy <HR>s …

I've been following dive into mark's 30 days to a more accessible weblog and so far, everything he's said to do I've pretty much done with this weblog.

Today's entry is about the <HR> tag and how to change the look of them. The method he uses works, but is a bit of a kludge. Mostly because it supports Netscape 4x, which doesn't support CSS to any decent degree.

That's why I've forgone Netscape 4x support entirely. How I do it is the way it's supposed to be done. First off, in the HTML for this page, I hide the style sheet from Netscape 4x: 

<SCRIPT>
  @import "/bdstyle.css";
</SCRIPT>

Netscape 4x doesn't suport “@import” so nothing gets included (thankfully, else my style sheet would crash it, hard). The style sheet then has: 

HR.next
{
  width:                50px;
  height:               16px;
  border:               none;
  margin-top:           0;
  margin-right:         auto;
  margin-bottom:        0;
  margin-left:          auto;
  padding:              0;
  background-image:     url(hr.gif);
  background-repeat:    no-repeat;
  background-position:  center;
}

Then in the HTML page, to use the image, I do: 

<HR CLASS="next">

And I have my fancy <HR>. And it works fine under the current versions of Netscape (6x), Mozilla (from about 0.9.2 on up), Opera and Internet Explorer (although those last two draw a faint grey border around the image).

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