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Hi there,
I just have two questions. Firstly, the book I'm using to learn HTML isn't all that complete, and when I make pages I find that when I shrink the window the text and small pictures bunch together on different lines from their original places. So what I want to know is how do I stop this from happening? Is there a different tag or attribute that fixes items to the page and stops the above effect from happening?
Secondly, is it possible to overlap pictures with text? Like have a picture with the word 'Home' on top of it? The picture could be a coloured horizontal bar at the top of the page that I want to place text links across it.
That's all.
I just have two questions. Firstly, the book I'm using to learn HTML isn't all that complete, and when I make pages I find that when I shrink the window the text and small pictures bunch together on different lines from their original places. So what I want to know is how do I stop this from happening? Is there a different tag or attribute that fixes items to the page and stops the above effect from happening?
Secondly, is it possible to overlap pictures with text? Like have a picture with the word 'Home' on top of it? The picture could be a coloured horizontal bar at the top of the page that I want to place text links across it.
That's all.
You can use CSS to stop the background repeating in a table. If you're serious about learning HTML, try http://www.w3schools.com. I preferred it to the books - its very easy to use, the examples are already there on the site, and the reference table is invaluable. Enjoy.
I'll now try what both Allred and Manic have suggested for overlapping. Sounds like it'll work. Thanks.
WickedWare wrote:
> Thanks a lot dispute. The book does cover tables and the width
> attribute in the table tag worked. I'll wait and see if anyone knows
> if it's possible to overlap pictures with text. I don't want to turn
> the picture into the link if I can help it.
You can use tables as layers, but I can't rember how. You could also create a table the size of the image, make it the table background and put the text on top. Or you could use CSS.
> Thanks a lot dispute. The book does cover tables and the width
> attribute in the table tag worked. I'll wait and see if anyone knows
> if it's possible to overlap pictures with text. I don't want to turn
> the picture into the link if I can help it.
You can use tables as layers, but I can't rember how. You could also create a table the size of the image, make it the table background and put the text on top. Or you could use CSS.
WickedWare wrote:
> I'll wait and see if anyone knows if it's possible to
> overlap pictures with text. I don't want to turn
> the picture into the link if I can help it.
If you do a table, you can have aPut whatever you want here .
So you can put whatever you want over the image, although if the image isn't big enough it'll get tiled.
> I'll wait and see if anyone knows if it's possible to
> overlap pictures with text. I don't want to turn
> the picture into the link if I can help it.
If you do a table, you can have a
So you can put whatever you want over the image, although if the image isn't big enough it'll get tiled.
are you wanting to do a navigation bar? like the one on my really old crap site ([URL]http://www.cascadeye.co.uk/[/URL]). If so then you could split the bar up into different segments for each link, although then u'd have to make each picture a link. look at the code for hints (it was made in dreamweaver cause i'm seriously lazy).
Still trying to find something for Div tags but i'm not sure if u can actually position them anymore. maybe someone else knows? well i should prob be off to my higher physics exam so i'll be back later.
Still trying to find something for Div tags but i'm not sure if u can actually position them anymore. maybe someone else knows? well i should prob be off to my higher physics exam so i'll be back later.
Thanks a lot dispute. The book does cover tables and the width attribute in the table tag worked. I'll wait and see if anyone knows if it's possible to overlap pictures with text. I don't want to turn the picture into the link if I can help it.
1. The best way of doing it is probably using tables with fixed width. I'm sure the book must have some info on that. So just shuv a fixed tag inside it, e.g.