make text flow around other text ?

[Eric Osman]

This text starts +---------------+
on the left but | |
then when the box | some boxed |
ends we see that | text |
the text on the | |
left is allowed +---------------+
to flow across all the way to the
right margin. What HTML tags convey
that this flowing should occur ?

Note: The boxed text is preferrably
as text and not as an image.

Thanks. er*******@rcn.com

[Davmagic com]

>From: er*******@rcn.com (Eric*Osman)

What HTML tags convey
that this flowing should occur ?

A simple Tables Layout can accomplish that!

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[Jim Dabell]

Davmagic com wrote:

From: er*******@rcn.com (Eric Osman)
What HTML tags convey
that this flowing should occur ?

A simple Tables Layout can accomplish that!

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but I can't see any way of
making a table layout do that.

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Jim Dabell

[Davmagic com]

>From: ji********@jimdabell.com

(Jim*Dabell)
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not,
but I can't see any way of making a table
layout do that.

Try:

<table><tr><td align="left">all your main text here...<table
align="right"><tr><td>your boxed text
here</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

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[Davmagic com]

>From: ji********@jimdabell.com

(Jim*Dabell)
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not,
but I can't see any way of making a table
layout do that.

OR Try:

<table><tr><td align="left"><table align="right"><tr><td>your boxed text
here</td></tr></table>all your main text here...</td></tr></table>

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[Brian]

Davmagic com wrote:

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not,
but I can't see any way of making a table
layout do that.

OR Try:

<table><tr><td align="left"><table align="right"><tr><td>your boxed text
here</td></tr></table>all your main text here...</td></tr></table>

OR try some common sense markup. A div or p element floated right,
with a width set to the author's desire. A bit simpler then the mess
you have.

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[Brian]

Davmagic com wrote:

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not,
but I can't see any way of making a table
layout do that.

OR Try:

<table><tr><td align="left"><table align="right"><tr><td>your boxed text
here</td></tr></table>all your main text here...</td></tr></table>

OR try some common sense markup. A div or p element floated right,
with a width set to the author's desire. A bit simpler then the mess
you have.

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[Jacqui or (maybe) Pete]

In article <37**************@storefull-2376.public.lawson.webtv.net>,
DL**@webtv.net says...

From: ji********@jimdabell.com
(Jim=A0Dabell)
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not,
but I can't see any way of making a table
layout do that.

OR Try:

<table><tr><td align=3D"left"><table align=3D"right"><tr><td>your boxed te=
xt
here</td></tr></table>all your main text here...</td></tr></table>

I tried it. Doesn't seem to work: http://porjes.haxorz.org/unboxed.html

Have I miscopied your code? IE6 and Opera overlay some of the text.
It's better (but not boxed) in Mozilla.

[Jacqui or (maybe) Pete]

In article <37*************@storefull-2376.public.lawson.webtv.net>,
DL**@webtv.net says...

From: ji********@jimdabell.com
(Jim=A0Dabell)
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not,
but I can't see any way of making a table
layout do that.

Try:

<table><tr><td align=3D"left">all your main text here...<table
align=3D"right"><tr><td>your boxed text
here</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Just tried this as well. Doesn't seem to work. Have I done something
wrong?

I tried to copy both of your examples:

http://porjes.haxorz.org/unboxed.html

It does different things in different browsers, which one is it supposed
to work in?

[Davmagic com]

>From: po****@spamcop.net

(Jacqui*or*(*maybe)*Pete)
I tried it. Doesn't seem to work:
http://porjes.haxorz.org/unboxed.html
Have I miscopied your code? IE6 and
Opera overlay some of the text. It's better
(but not boxed) in Mozilla.

You need to add a width to the boxed data table:

<table><tr><td align="left"><table width="200" align="right"><tr><td
width="200">put your boxed text here</td></tr></table>put all your main
text here</td></tr></table>

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[Brian]

Lauri Raittila wrote:

<table><tr><td align=3D"left">all your main text here...<table
align=3D"right"><tr><td>your boxed text
here</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Doesn't seem to work. Have I done something wrong?

Yes. Try this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<title>Un-nested text</title>
<table align="right" border="2">
<tr><td height="50">boxed text</table>
<p>all your main text here...
all your main text here...
all your main text here...
all your main text here...
all your main text here...
<p>all your main text here...
all your main text here...
all your main text here...
all your main text here...
all your main text here...
all your main text here...

Should work on NN2+

Doesn't work. Moz 1.3/Win2k. Nor on O7/Win2k. Or to be more
precise, your example above only worked because the boxed text
contained only 2 words, "boxed text." With more text in the left box,
it does not work (nor should it). Test case below:

< http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~btrem...ablefloat.html >

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[Lauri Raittila]

In article <W5GRa.76080$OZ2.13688@rwcrnsc54>, Brian wrote:

Lauri Raittila wrote:
[snip]

Should work on NN2+

Doesn't work. Moz 1.3/Win2k. Nor on O7/Win2k. Or to be more
precise, your example above only worked because the boxed text
contained only 2 words, "boxed text." With more text in the left box,
it does not work (nor should it).

Maybe I should have mentioned, that this was one of the reasons it worked
(orginal question had only little text, at it was hard wrapped). Only
posted because the other code was having problem with useless table, and
the real table in wrong place. (and surely didn't bother test and add
disclaimer to it)

The funny thing with table layouts are, that when you get used to CSS
layouts, table layouts seem to be harder to do than CSS ones. And so
inflexible. (It would work as float on div if width was aplied to it -
but so would div with float ;-)
< http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~btrem...ablefloat.html >

It breaks on Opera 7 pretty badly - I bet it would work better on NN2 :-)

Seems that Opera has bug. It should act as if float:right was aplied to
table, but for some reason it don't.

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[Lauri Raittila]

In article <MP************************@news.cis.dfn.de>, Lauri Raittila
wrote:

< http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~btrem...ablefloat.html >

It breaks on Opera 7 pretty badly - I bet it would work better on NN2 :-)

Seems that Opera has bug. It should act as if float:right was aplied to
table, but for some reason it don't.

So now, when Someone says that table layouts are good, because they work
on old browsers, we can answer that there is problems with them on new
browsers! :-)

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