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RE: (off?) HTML link "tails" ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Wed Oct 28 22:09:24 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:11:09 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Simon Garner wrote:
>
>> >I'm not sure if this is an apache glitch or I'm buggering up something
>> >in my link tags, but on my page the links all have an extra tail that
>> >goes about one space after them. Also all the images that are hyper
>> >links have this tail even with borders = "0" in the link tag.
>
>That's because the links are running over more than one line of HTML.
>This is a bug in Netscape.
>
This sounds more like a feature of HTML itself. Newlines are treated as
whitespace. If the text contains more than one whitespace character in a
row it's collapsed into a single space; hence if your tag contains a
newline it is interpreted as a space once parsed.
take a look at the docs at http://www.w3.org for more info on this.
-Dave
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