Decorative Tables

[zoobie]

I need to make decorative borders with ***'s only (NO IMAGES!)

<EDIT>Image removed</EDIT>

How about a hand?

Thx

PS - Where's Martha Stewart when you need her? Oh yeah...prison.

[joh6nn]

i think you need to make a picture that's exactly one asterisk, and then use it as a background picture in cells surrounding your content.

[premshree]

Not what you want but nice decoration :

<table style="border:2 dashed #336699"><tr><td>.........</td></tr></table>

[zoobie]

Still lookin' for an answer...

[joh6nn]

mind if i ask why it can't be an image? i'm pretty sure that's the only way to do it.

[zoobie]

Well, I want to send simple html in emails for my tell-a-friend and using images would severely complicate things (e.g. won't display in hotmail, aol, yahoo, etc).

So, I'm going to use characters like /////// and ******* and ~~~~ for my table borders.

[joh6nn]

well, i still thing you have to use images, but i know for a fact that both aol and hotmail accept images in their html mail, if that at all helps.

[Vladdy]

Ok everyone, just for the laughs:

<table>
<tr>
<td colspan=3>*************************************************</td>
<tr><td>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*</td>
<td><table><tr><td>your table goes here</td></tr></table>
<td align="right">*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*</td></tr>
<td colspan=3>*************************************************</td>
</table>

Now that I provided you with the posible solution, can you tell me if you honestly believe that those asterisks around your message will make its content any more valuable

[zoobie]

Now, how do you get the ***'s to be evenly spaced around the table like in my first post?

(How do you get an image to display embedded in AOL? I mean hot-linked like:
<img src="http://host.com/me/image.gif"></img>? I can't seem to get it whcih is why I've defaulted to using characters in table borders.)


Thanks

[Vladdy]

You ARE some perfectionist
.... try word-spacing for horizontal (or add & n b s p ; in-between the *)
line-height for vertical

[joh6nn]

i don't know, i've never personally done it, by i have an aol account, and i get HTML mail with pictures all the time there ( i use it to collect spam when i sign up for newsgroups, etc. ). next time i get one, i'll take a look at the source, and let you know. or forward it to you, if you like.

[zoobie]

I already tried the & n b s p ; which didn't work.

How about an example on how to use the word-spacing and the line-height attributes?

Thanks

[joh6nn]

word-spacing: fixedamount;
line-height: fixedamount|percentage;

for the life of me, i don't know why word-spacing doesn't take percentages, but according the Guide, it doesn't. i'm thinking maybe they expect you to set it in ems, though i tend to set in pixels.

[zoobie]

Could somebody check this?
I can't seem to get the inner nested table up to the top...The "Zoobie's Official Site" should be very close to the top***'s and it doesn't seem to be centering. Thanks

<table bgcolor=black width=477px cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td colspan=3 align=left style='word-spacing: 6px' style='line-height: 37px'><font face=tahoma size=6 color=red>* * * * * * * * * * * * *</font></td>
<tr valign='middle'><td style='line-height: 35px'><font face=tahoma size=6 color=red>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*</font></td>
<td><table><tr><td><table align=center><tr><td><table bgcolor=#000000 align=center>
<tr>
<td align='center'><font face='times new roman' size=5 color=white><u>Zoobie's Official Site</font></u></td></tr>
<tr><td><font face='times new roman' size=4 color=white>Hi <i>$friend!</i><br><br>
<center>Your friend <i>$you</i> thought you'd like this site!<br>This is <u><i>hilarious</u>!</i><br>
Click <a href='http://me.com'><i> here</a> !</i></font></center>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><font face='times new roman' size=3 color=white><u>Sender comments</u>:<br><i>$comments</i></font></td></tr>
</table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>
<td align="right" valign=middle style='line-height: 35px'><font face=tahoma size=6 color=red>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*<br>*</font></td></tr>
<td colspan=3 align=left style='word-spacing: 6px' style='line-height: 30px'><font face=tahoma size=6 color=red>* * * * * * * * * * * * *</font></td>
</table>

[justame]

zoo...
just a checkout® your opening/closing tr/td tags...
you seeem to just a start® your table with...

<table bgcolor=black width=477px cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td colspan=3 align=left style='word-spacing: 6px' style='line-height: 37px'><font
face=tahoma size=6 color=red>* * * * * * * * * * * * *</font></td>

n' then??? you just a dont® close off thattt </tr>
before just a opening® your next one...:O(((

n' then??? you start just a opening® tables alll over the place...:O((( ...

/me would just a suggest® you go over your 'table' tags just a one® more time making sure you open/close 'em properly...:O)))

aka...
<table><tr><td>yaddayadda</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>yadda in just a nested® table 1</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>