How do I align a link?

[Baron Samedi]

I want to align "next" and "prev" links right and left. How do I do
this? Span or what?

Thanks. Soory to be so clueless

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Baron Samedi wrote:

I want to align "next" and "prev" links right and left.

Stop wanting that.

How do I do this? Span or what?

You would do it using the align="..." attribute or using CSS, but the
details would depend on the context, which you don't reveal at all (hint:
URL). And you should just stop wanting that.

Actually, there is seldom need for a "prev" link at all. Formal symmetry is
just confusing here. If you have (logically) a list of pages that might
typically be read in a particular sequence, "next" and "top" links are
sufficient. (Anyone who starts reading the pages in succession can use the
Back button to get back when needed. Anyone who just stumbles across a
particular page, e.g. via a search engine, will more probably want to see
the "top", i.e. the index or table of content, rather than the previous
page.)

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[Ben C]

On 2006-09-17, Baron Samedi <Pa************@gmail.comwrote:

I want to align "next" and "prev" links right and left. How do I do
this? Span or what?

You can just float the links:

<a style="float: left" ... >prev</a>
<a style="float: right" ... >next</a>

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Ben C wrote:

On 2006-09-17, Baron Samedi <Pa************@gmail.comwrote:

>I want to align "next" and "prev" links right and left. How do I do
this? Span or what?

You can just float the links:

<a style="float: left" ... >prev</a>
<a style="float: right" ... >next</a>

Floating is different from alignment. Casually they might produce the same
visual effect, but generally they don't. Did you even test what happens to
the content after the floated links?

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Ben C]

On 2006-09-17, Jukka K. Korpela <jk******@cs.tut.fiwrote:

Ben C wrote:

>On 2006-09-17, Baron Samedi <Pa************@gmail.comwrote:

>>I want to align "next" and "prev" links right and left. How do I do
this? Span or what?

You can just float the links:

<a style="float: left" ... >prev</a>
<a style="float: right" ... >next</a>

Floating is different from alignment.

Of course, but for aligning "prev" and "next" links I would have thought
floats were probably more useful than text-align.

But I'm interested to see your solution.

[Stan Brown]

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:26:30 +0300 from Jukka K. Korpela
<jk******@cs.tut.fi>:

Baron Samedi wrote:

I want to align "next" and "prev" links right and left.

Stop wanting that.

Forevermore, why? It seems a perfectly reasonable request. And it's
easy enough to do in CSS.

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