Transparent GIF trick
Today's
Web designers make extensive use of a transparent single pixel GIF to
position elements on a web page. The single pixel GIF hardly uses any
file space, so therefore no delays for downloading. The single pixel GIF
however gives the designer full freedom of placing the image exactly where
it is wanted. The trick is to add to that single pixel GIF a certain vertical
space (vspace) and/or a certain horizontal space (hspace). In the example
I used a hspace="47", the total command-line is:
<img src="images/dot_clear.gif" width="1" height="1"
border="0" hspace="47><img src="images/logo.gif"
width="50" height="51" border="0" alt="logo
of Lovelymaps"><br>
Action
Combine
the hspace and vspace to push the image around.
Tables
In
an earlier lesson
you were told that tables are important tools for the Web designer to
get all elements exactly there where required. The combination of the
transparent single pixel GIF's and tables provides even more control.
The WYSIWYG HTML editors also make use of these elements.
Action
Use
the table of one of the previous exercises and insert, instead of text,
the logo of "LovelyMaps". Do not be afraid to try out different
settings. Try, Learn, try, learn, try, learn ...
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