Spacing

[deadfingers]

Alright well i need to know how to space a table or a 'cell' slightly off from the edges or slightly away from the middle or whatnot. I used it a while ago, it was like <hspace="#"> or something but i cant remember! what is it? and where does it go? i read somewhere it goes like in the code like <td hspace="10"></td> but it doesnt work, are there any other ways to space things out like this? not a lot just like some PX or something, like if i wat a pic or a table to move 10 px to the right or left or whatnot. I know u can use like <div></div> or something but ive never really used any spacing type codes much so. any help is appreciated :)

[Forge]

ok
soo like? You dont want the content to be touching the edges? If so, in the table tag, you need an attribute such as...
cellpadding=2
2 is equal to 2 pixels, so keep that in mind.

[deadfingers]

lol yeah i know bout that, no i mean if i wanted to space something in a certain spot, like 15px to the right of the center. cellpadding and cellspacing is just for tables, and thats not what i mean, how would i separate like pictures or other things like say i want them near the center yet not on the left/right of the center. get me?

[pfgannon]

I only have one thing to say to you about this...
CSS

[deadfingers]

heh well im sticking to HTML, anyone know? not that i dont want to learn CSS but i just rather learn another 'language' like PHP or something else instead. besides i know theres a way to space out stuff like this in HTML, come on guys! lol but seriously help please!

[shield]

i think css would be the only way...unless you used a layer...

[CannonBallGuy]

Uss CSS
use this code: "top:50px;left:15px;"
ie.
<img src="link" style="top:50px;left:15px;" />
That would put the image 50px down from the top and 15px across from the left.
You can also do stuff like <div style="top:10px;left:35px;"> Whatever you put here wil be 10px down and 35px across.</div>

[deadfingers]

oh alright kewl, ive used those codes before just never though they were CSS lol so yeah thanx a lot guys :)

[CannonBallGuy]

Yo' Welcome. :P

[kink]

cbg is right if you want an inline deal try
<div id="position:absolute; top:20px; left:20px; width:200px; height: 200px:">

(your stuff)
</div>

[deadfingers]

hmm alright well i used those 'codes' for once and they dont work at all, i tried this

<div id="position:absolute; top:20px; left:20px; width:200px; height: 200px:"><i>Sincerely,

<br>CEO/Owner<br>Digital Ebay</i></b></font></div>


and it just sits there, why does it do that? if i use &nbps; it moves it like 1px at a time so thats not wat i want to use id have like a page of those just to move them over. so any other things?

ok i used the wyiwyg part of the editor i use to move it and i look at the code and it did this

<i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Sincerly,

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CEO/Owner<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;Digital Ebay</i></b></font>

wtf? i would have thought it would use something more effective than that, but eh ill just leave it like that for now. but if anyone knows of any good code that i can use to precisely space out that would be great, or tell me wat im doing wrong wit the <div></div> tags thanx
:D :rog: *i edited it since u needed to scroll some because it had too many '&nbsp;" but i cut it down, u get the idea of wat im saying so.

[CannonBallGuy]

Your code is messed up.
You ended a CSS thing with : where it should be a ; ...
And you have closed two tags you didnt even open.
Plus, NEVER EVER let me see you use <b>, <i> or <font> again.
Do this:

<div id="position:absolute;top:20px;left:20px;width:200px;h eight:200px;font-style:oblique;">
Sincerely,
<br>CEO/Owner<br>
Digital Ebay</div>

The "font-style:oblique" will make that text inside the div italic. :)

[deadfingers]

Your code is messed up.
You ended a CSS thing with : where it should be a ; ...
And you have closed two tags you didnt even open.
Plus, NEVER EVER let me see you use <b>, <i> or <font> again.
Do this:

<div id="position:absolute;top:20px;left:20px;width:200px;h eight:200px;font-style:oblique;">
Sincerely,
<br>CEO/Owner<br>
Digital Ebay</div>

The "font-style:oblique" will make that text inside the div italic. :)

I always use <B></B> and <i></i> and <font></font> and they always work so why no? i dont use CSS so thats wat i use. Oh and i did close the tags, the beginning of the tags are in the beginning of this paragraph. I tried that one u posted and still nothing, i put it in a new page to see if it would work and it just puts it in the top left like normal, i know this is the normal position because i tried it without the <div> tags and its in the same place like if the tags had no effect on them. do i need to save the file as a certain file? or do i save as HTML? im using an HTML editor (Allaire Homesite 4.5) this is kinda weird that nothing seems to work
:confused:

[CannonBallGuy]

wait. I just noticed somehting else that is messing up your code...
you have <div id="blah...
Should be <div style="blah...

And <b>, <i>, <u> and <font> don't always work.
Its a pretty basic rule to just avoid them at all costs.
If you use a css style sheet do this:
.b {font-weight:bold;}

and then:
<span class="b">bold</span>

[deadfingers]

well im starting to use more CSS in my files, as for the <div id="blah"> u told me to put that so i did, then the part for the bold and stuff i put

.b{font-weight:bold;} and the bold text goes here? or do i need this also

<span class="b">bold</span>? thanx

[tony]

you put .b{font-weight:bold;} in your style sheet

then on your page you put the <span class="b">text here</span>