[WEB4LIB] Re: Creating an empty table cell

[Reed, Tracey]

The only thing about using a transparent gif is that unless you give it an
"alt" tag, you're not ADA compatible.  Now, the work around for this is to
give it an "alt" tag of a space:  alt=" " is completely acceptable for ADA
compliance.

Tracey - who's glad it's Friday


-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Higgs [mailto:dkh2 at po.cwru.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:34 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Creating an empty table cell


Occasionally I will use a single pixel transparent gif.  That's a 1*1 
bitonal gif in which that one pixel is the transparent color.

At 11:55 AM 3/14/2002, Robert Sullivan wrote:
>I've always used   when I wanted to make sure my tables displayed
>properly.  I have recently seen a comment that it's better to use a break
tag
>to fill in an empty cell.  I have used <br> in tables to make them more
>intelligible to text browsers, but not for this purpose.
>
>Any opinions?
>
>Bob Sullivan                               scp_sulli at sals.edu
>Schenectady County Public Library (NY)     http://www.scpl.org

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