Stan Brown <th************@fastmail.fm> wrote:
http://tranchant.plus.com/tmp/boxedtext
Understanding you just implemented what the OP seemed to be asking
for, shouldn't that box be out of the normal flow. Logically if it'd
not part of the main discussion it shouldn't interrupt the main
discussion.
Indeed. If you just have a paragraph with borders, the natural assumption
is that this is a hightlighted paragraph in normal flow rather than a
digression. Setting float: right and some reasonable width (such as
15em) plus some margins should take care of this.
Moreover, using a different font, and maybe even reduced font size like
90%, might contribute to conveying the idea of a side note. But this is
basically CSS, not HTML.
It is possible to create a floated paragraph in pure (though not
Puristic) HTML as well, e.g.
<table align="right" cellspacing="8" cellpadding="6"
summary="This table contains a side note about foobar."
width="300" border="1">
<tr><td>Lorem ipsum - -.</td></tr>
</table>
This is unnecessarily tricky and inflexible, so this was basically just
my ObHTML this time. :-)
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