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- What is it?
- The SPACER tag attempts to give the author more control
over white space in HTML documents. The author can control horizontal-only
spacing, vertical-only spacing, or block spacing (vertical and horizontal)
as well.
- Attributes
- Align
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE
| M | N3B5
- Required? No
- Description:
This attribute only applies when the TYPE is Block.
It controls alignment of the surrounding text relative to the spacing block.
- Values:
Left | Right |
Top | Texttop |
Middle | Absmiddle |
Baseline | Bottom |
Absbottom
- Height
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE
| M | N3B5
- Required? No
- Description:
This attribute only applies when the TYPE is Block.
It controls the pixel height of the Block
[Rectangle] SPACER element.
- Values: Positive integers.
- Size
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE
| M | N3B5
- Required? No
- Description:
This attribute only applies when the SPACER has a TYPE of
Horizontal or
Vertical. It controls the pixel height
or width of the SPACER element.
- Values: Positive integers.
- Type
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE
| M | N3B5
- Required? Yes
- Description:
The values for TYPE allow different types of control over whitespace
spacing.
- Values:
Horizontal:
[DEFAULT]
This TYPE inserts horizontal space between text or content objects.
The amount of space is
specified by the SIZE attribute. Other SPACER attributes will be ignored.
Vertical:
This TYPE inserts vertical space between lines. The amount of space is
specified by the SIZE attribute. Other SPACER attributes will be ignored.
Block:
This TYPE behaves exactly like a transparent image. When this type is
used, the SIZE attribute will be ignored and Height, Width and Align
will be analyzed in its place.
- Width
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE
| M | N3B5
- Required? No
- Description:
This attribute only applies when the TYPE is Block.
It controls the pixel width of the Block
[Rectangle] SPACER element.
- Values: Positive integers.
Style Sheet Attributes
[More on Cascading Style Sheets]
- Class
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE
| M | N4B2
- Required? No
- Description:
This represents an assigned semantic classification grouping(s) for the
current tag.
- Values:
Given as a comma separated list of alphanumeric characters. Class names
may contain spaces (multiple consecutive spaces treated as a single
space.)
- ID
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE
| M | N4B2
- Required? No
- Description:
This assigns an alpha-numeric identifier that is unique
to this tag instance. Style sheets may use this attribute to reference
the current instance of this tag. Hyperlinks may also use this identifier
to serve as a destination.
- Values:
An alphanumeric string - initial character must be a letter followed
by alphabetic characters, digits, "-" or "."
characters. The allowable set of alpha-characters is restricted to the
A-Z and a-z set.
- Style
- 2 | 3
| 3.2 | IE
| M | N4B3
- Required? No
- Description:
This attribute is a text string that provides rendering style
information for the current tag.
- Values:
Please see the description of
inline styles for more
information on how to use this attribute and its
possible values.
- Example
- <spacer TYPE="block"
ALIGN="left" WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=100>
This is text that began with a SPACER element. Do you like it?
<br CLEAR="left">
- Parent Model
-
%Anchors% |
%Virtual
Formatting% |
%Physical
Formatting% |
%Block Format
Parent% |
%Multimedia
Parent% |
<Body> |
<Address> |
<Basefont> |
<Heading> |
<Marquee>
- Content Model
- This tag does not accept any content.
Tips & Tricks
- This is a brand new tag and only supported by recent Netscape
versions. It is not a part of any HTML standard or draft and its
use is not at all recommended until wider support occurs.
- Effects of this tag can be duplicated with Style Sheets, which
are to be included in a future HTML specification as well as in
Netscape's own browser as well. Style Sheets also allow much more
varied display control.
- DTD Note: No DTD information exists
regarding this tag. The behavioral model used here was the IMG
tag, which this tag most closely resembles in attributes and
intended behavior. The attribute requirement qualifications are only
personal guesses and should not be taken as gospel (like the TYPE
attribute being required - since HORIZONTAL is the default value, this
is probably not required, but rather just a 'good idea'.)
Browser Peculiarities
- This tag is new and no problems are known at this time.
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