How to allow spaces before text in IE AND NS

[LEICJDN1]

Hi there,

Am slowly getting to grips with CSS. On my page I have set two layouts to put a link at the bottom left and bottom right of my main content area, which will be the next and back links. Each fills 50% of the content width, so there is a solid bar of colour at the bottom of the content area which the links sit in.

But, the left link is aligned-left, and the right link to the right, consequently the link words butt right up against the border.

I thought I could just put " back" instead of "back" as the link text, so the space pushes the text in a little, and the background colour block still continues up to the border, and similarly "next " rather than "next" on the right..

It seemed to work in NS 7 but not IE 6.02. Changed the white space variable but cannot get it to work.

Have also tried putting "&#32back" but no joy.

Anyone have any suggestions? What am I missing here?

If seeing my code will help then I can post here (webpage is not uploaded yet)

Thanks!

 

[BHaines]

Have you tried putting (ampersand)nbsp; to the outside of the A HREF? That's the HTML code for a space. (Note it kept parsing the ampersand, replace the word with the symbol for Shift-7 on the keyboard and remove the ().

 

[LEICJDN1]

Thanks, perfect. Actually, re-reading my post I hadn't noticed it had parsed the ampersand I used, as my line hsould have read - also tried "ampersand#32back" which i thought was html code for space.

Still, i think the key was to put it the other side of the <a> tag, so thanks very much!!

 

[BHaines]

You're welcome! Glad I could help!

 

[Wullie]

BHaines,

To get &amp;nbsp; to show on this forum you need to type &amp;amp;nbsp;

Do not preview the code though, otherwise it looks ok in the preview but messes up when you post it.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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