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swtgal
07-12-2003, 11:49 AM
<blockquote>
what does that do?

swtgal
07-12-2003, 11:51 AM
also what is <strong>

swtgal
07-12-2003, 11:54 AM
also these <div id="Layer1"
style="z-index: 1; overflow: auto; position: absolute; left: 187; top: 80; width: 400; height: 495">

what is id for? and the style="z-index: 1?

webby
07-12-2003, 11:56 AM
<strong> is bascially the same as <b>, it makes the text bold, there is a list of loads of different text comands and what they do Here (http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/textcodes.html)

pb&j
07-12-2003, 01:19 PM
blockquote puts a buffer area on the right and left side of the text. so it is like indented a bit from the side borders.

strong is similar to the bold tag <b>. makes text bolder.

div is like the paragraph tag <p>. it is a container.

id is giving that div container a name for reference. either for a script or style.

z-index is a positioning value. it is the 3rd dimension. X is so far from the left border, Y is so far from the top border, Z is up and down towards the viewing person from the monitor. not literally off the screen, but it helps give the appearance of layering different things and able to overlap. if a different div area has a zindex of 2 and it was positioned a bit over this current one, the other div area would appear ontop for the overlap portion.

overflow controls if a scrollbar will appear or not depending on how much content is viewed within the div area.

position will position the div area to a specific spot on the screen X number of spaces from the left and Y number of places from the top.

width and height are rather self explanitory.