Graphic borders

[TruthInSatire]

I know how to make a graphic border with rounded or cut corners using a 3x3 table. Is there an easier way to do it in css?

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[dkdude]

Hi Bombboy,

Try the FIELDSET tag. This gives you round corners!


Jakob

 

[Foamcow]

Does it?

hmm

Try looking on

http://www.alistapart.com

for a nice technique for doing this with CSS.
Example at my site

http://www.foamcow.com

http://www.foamcow.com

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[TruthInSatire]

I've used fieldsets before just for the legend. The border look square to me. Even if they where round it can't do things like the border I did here

http://www.travmak.com/wolf/

Thanks.

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[Foamcow]

A tag in itself won't give round borders.
A browser's rendering of that tag might, but htat depends on the browser.

A tag simply marks something as being a particular type of data, it doesn't have any styling. That's down to the user agent being used. Hence CSS.

http://www.foamcow.com

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[TruthInSatire]

so i'm guessing the 3x3 table is the easiest way to do it then huh? No neat rules in css to do it?

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[Foamcow]

There is no simple CSS selector for it.
But once you get your head around it, it's not THAT hard to do.

http://www.foamcow.com

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[TruthInSatire]

Thanks foamcow. what is the easiest way to make that 3x3 table a certian height? for example on the Link i gave above how would I make the nav bar the full height to be level with the footer.

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[Foamcow]

I've not used tables for layout for some time, but here are some options...

You can try the height attribute, not sure it will help though.
You could try using CSS to size the table... likewise.

The easiest way would be to "prop" the table open using a spacer graphic. (transparent gif 1pixel wide by however high you want it.

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[TruthInSatire]

Thanks for the suggestion foamcow. I'll try playing with the height using css. I can't use a spacer graphic because the main body will most times be dynamic content so the height will shift up and down.

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