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"Urusei Machie"

This is where I post problems and questions while I work on my Language/Travel website.

Link coming soon =)

Garin wrote:
> You can just apply whatever margin and padding you like to your
> > having the

at all anyway. :)

What could I use instead of
? A div around the 'answers'?


> You should really use > style="text-align:center"> > within a div (dont remember if buttons count as text or images,
> you'll soon find out I guess).

It worked but then it put the link on the same level as the submit button. How can I add a space between them.
will just put the link right underneath.

> Technically

is meant for paragraphing text yet I doubt the
> world will end with you using it for just a single word. :)
> And I assume you mean
and not
. xhtml states
> that every tag must have a closing element. Since
has no
> corresponding closing tag you just put
.

That makes sense =) Quoting this message really messed up all the tags. I don't think it likes all the < >.

> If you have problems with

messing about with your
> formatting. You can always try > style="display:inline;".

Thank you =) though it didn't solve the problem I had. Well it's a "doesnt look like it should in IE6" kinda problem. I have two columns, that poll div should be at the top in the right one. But in IE6, after putting in the poll code, it decided to add space above the poll div. So the left column would appear to be higher than the right column.

Do you know a way I might force the poll div to stay at the top of the right column?

You can just apply whatever margin and padding you like to your

to get the effect you want. All a bit backwards to me having the
at all anyway. :)

You should really use
to centre text within a div (dont remember if buttons count as text or images, you'll soon find out I guess).

Technically

is meant for paragraphing text yet I doubt the world will end with you using it for just a single word. :)
And I assume you mean
and not
. xhtml states that every tag must have a closing element. Since
has no corresponding closing tag you just put
.

If you have problems with messing about with your formatting. You can always try .

hmm padding is okay but I'd like the 'poll answers' to be further away from the border. How can I change

to do that for me?

EDIT: Oh and there's a new series of Time Team starting today, thought you might be interested ;)

[B]<ul>[/B]<form action="cgi-bin/pollnow.cgi" method="POST">
<input type="HIDDEN" name="Poll" value="pollnow1">
<b>Console wars! I'm voting for...</b><br>
...

This is where the guy placed it originally. Is it important or is it fine that I just padded all the sides. It looks okay.

Is

Question

okay to use? I never used

like that before I started using Dreamweaver 8. Not sure of the difference between
and either =/

<div align="center"><input type="Submit" value="Vote">
</form>

See Results</div>

Doing this kind of div (inside my poll div) is okay for centering the buttons at the bottom? I have to ask because </form>use to cause me so many problems when I was using tables.

Where is the

coming from? Is the poll generating it or are you putting it in? Its the
thats setting the left margin on this I'd assume. There shouldnt be
without
• inside it anyway (as it a list without any list elements then).
  Up to you really, style the
  or remove it and add your own padding. :)

Oops sorry I started working on something else, I'll get back to it in a minute though. I did find one that might work but I think it needs tweaking.

At the moment I'm transfering that poll to my pages. So it needs a lot of cleaning and de-branding.

I put the code from here into a 'poll' div. This <ul> code I placed under the question. But as you can see it's centering it too much. Can I change it at all or should I just do a div inside the div to push it to the left a bit more. I suppose I could just get rid of it and pad the inside. I forget padding is inside borders right? It's margins that are outside.

EDIT: Obviously this isn't what it'll look like, I just did a div with width and borders to start with.

Why arent you having much luck? Have you found one from that list you want to use?

EDIT: Or just post your current css layout. If I remember it correctly it should be easily modified.

Thanks for the help guys =) I'm still undecided on the titles but I might go site name last because it's so long.

At the moment I'm doing the 3 columns, I can't remember did you ever post an example of one in here cjh? Garin gave me a list, but I'm not having much luck, they seem more complicated than I need. It was easily just with 2 columns, tell one to float left, tell one to float right and that's it. Fixed width and height.

cjh wrote:
> Don't worry, you won't hurt any feelings :)

Speak for yourself, I'll cry for weeks and weeks. :(

So which way are you going for Machie? Don't worry, you won't hurt any feelings :) Though I should expand on my view a little; my last post was a quick one as I was about to get a hair cut.

I've always thought it better to be page specific myself, rather than site specific, due to the fact that a single web site can offer multiple content, and I think search engines aren't interested in web sites, but web pages.

I've actually just noticed that when you do a search using Google or Yahoo, they place your search term first in the title, and their site name after. Not sure if that has any relation to which you should go for though.

Truth is though it's much more complicated than a page title :)