br clear=”all” moving border

  • kinuk

    (@kinuk)


    21 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,
    When posting photos, I have always put in
    ‘backticks’
    <br clear=”all” /> ‘backticks’ after the photo to ensure that the text will go underneath the photo and not next to it, etc. This always worked prior to moving to WP. What happens now is odd: the border on the right -hand side of the main contents column disappears until the end of the right column. The photos after the br clear=”all” command are also moved way down the page until the end of the right column. You can see an example of this here:
    http://www.kinuk.co.uk/blog/archives/2004/06/08/371/#more-371
    I’ve tried playing with both the padding and the margins of both columns (contents and the menu one) but it doesn’t seem to make any difference.
    Can this be fixed or do I have to go through all my photo posts and convert br clear=”all” to just br?

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  • Thread Starter kinuk

    (@kinuk)

    21 years, 11 months ago

    Let me add something to that: it seems that this annoying effect is not present in Mozilla 1.5. I’ve not checked Firefox yet. I know it’d be easy to just ignore the IE users, but I really don’t want to. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years, 11 months ago

    <br clear="all"> will do very little… it’s neither CSS or XHTML.
    Try either:

    or
    <div class=”clear”>– space– </div> and define that in your CSS.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years, 11 months ago

    Btw, on a UK keyboard, the backtick is the key to the left of number 1 across the top.

    Thread Starter kinuk

    (@kinuk)

    21 years, 11 months ago

    Podz,
    I do know that it’s the CSS or XHTML, but why didn’t it show up before, when I was using MT? It works fine in Mozilla, it’s just IE that’s a pain in the neck. I guess that does mean that I’ve got to go and change every single <br clear="all" /> to just
    by hand. Thanks for your help.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years, 11 months ago

    To avoid any further issues, I would run a page through the w3c validator, see what that says, and work toward full validation.
    If you are editing a lot of posts, it would be quicker to paste the post into something like Notepad / BBedit and do a find / replace.

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