Re: <br clear=all> going away

"Jim Michaels" <jmichae3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "David Dorward" <dorward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Jim Michaels wrote:
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>>> <br clear=all> is being deprecated.
>>
>> No, it isn't. It *was* deprecated about a decade ago. (It still is, but

>> it
>> is not an ongoing process).
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> I found Float and Clear, but they are not in CSS Level 2 - they are 
> specific to IE.  If w3c drops these and a lot of the other attribs, 
> there's no replacement that works in all browsers as far as I can see. 
> ouch.  they've already deprecated the applet tag and a whole bunch of 
> attribs like width and height on TD/TH on HTML 4.01.  They hinted they
are 
> trying to force a move to CSS, zapping tags & attributes that can be
done 
> with CSS.

OOPS! I found them in CSS2.  but they still don't work very good.

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> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/attributes.html
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/index/elements.html
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>>> Q1: is there any way to flow text around an image with CSS? like these

>>> do?
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>> Float.
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>>> Q2: is there a replacement for <br clear=all> which drops down past
the
>>> image and continues text?
>>
>> Clear (although not usually applied to a line break).
>>
>> -- 
>> David Dorward       <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>

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