Preserved Topic: Text Wrapping Around Graphics?

Didn't think this was possible in HTML, but I guess I was wrong. I found the example at http://www.ohiounion.com/techserv.html
The document is so weird (</HTML> in the middle of the file???!?) that I am not sure exactly how it's done. Anyone know how to do this off the top of their head?

That would undoubtedly be usage of Server Side Include statements. See the threads on SSI.

http://www.ozones.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/000026.html

Tutorial link from Doc Ozone...this one helped me learn SSI quick.
http://alumweb.mit.edu/reference/ssi/

You are understandably amazed with SSI, and thanks for the link to that tut, but I don't see how SSI could have anything to do with text wrapping a specific way, especially since the example file I gave doesn't even end in .shtml.

<img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

i'm confused... text wrapping around graphics? are you refering to how the text at the beginning appears over the two images that are also located on the side of the page?

everything appears to be rather simple use of tables and backgrounds on that page... though if you look at the code, you'd never guess that--talk about ugly coding, bet they used WYSIWYG.

oh well, clarify a little bit on what you're asking about, sorry!

cheers.mikey.milker

I was referrint to the comment you made about the /HTML in the middle of the code.

<img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/rolleyes.gif">

SSI without .shtml suffix?

Anyway, in response to milker, I am talking about the main text wrapping around the table on the right side. Normally when I put next next to a table the best that I can get is one line of text along the baseline of the table which then wraps underneath, but this whole paragraph form fits itself around the table. Almost as if it were in a table cell that extended in an L-shape around the smaller navigation table.

Maybe I am just ignorant, but I have always wanted to do this, and never figured out how. Now I have downloaded this page, cut out all the extraneous stuff, and still can't figure out how the hell they do it. Looking at the straight source I see no unfamiliar element that would reformat it this way. In Dreamweaver, the only tell-tale clue is the presence of an invisible tag in the WYSIWYG window when clicked on selects the table which the text wraps around. I see no corresponding HTML code however. Looking in the preferences under the hidden elements item, I see that the icon in question is called 'anchors for aligned elements'. So it obviously has something to do with this, but again, I can not figure out what this icon corresponds to in the html.

jiblet--

oh, i think i see what you're saying now... i'm rushing out the door in a few minutes, so i'm just going to cut and paste an example of HTML from an old page of mine that places text on the left of an image.

Whoa - I'm getting mighty confused here. If all you want to do is wrap text around a table, just use ALIGN=left or ALIGN=right in the TABLE tag. Like this:

<TABLE ALIGN=right>
<TR>
<TD>Stuff in the table.<BR>
Stuff in the table.<BR>
Stuff in the table.</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

Stuff around the table. Stuff around the table. Stuff around the table. Stuff around the table.

That should do the trick. Can do the same thing with images.



[This message has been edited by Wes (edited 13-06-2000).]

I'm so confused right now I don't know who's asking what and who's answering what <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/confused.gif">

Yah, all he's done is spec one of the tables as <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" align="right">

This works OK on all 4.0 level browsers to my knowledge, although IE3.0 (if you need to worry about 1.5% of the viewing public!) will see things differently. Whenever I wonder about a table structure like this, the first thing I do is set all of the table borders to "1". Then I start dropping some subtle pastel bgcolors, like "#ffff99" and "#9999ff". You end up with something like this.

Your pal, -doc-



[This message has been edited by DocOzone (edited 13-06-2000).]

hah. I'm very embarassed now. Shoulda tried that straight off... guess I thought I had this stuff figured out around Netscape 2.0 and never upgraded my knowledge. Thanks d00dz.