Netscape SPAN problem -- easy question

[burak]

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving,

 

I am dynamically creating a label and assigning a

width to it.

 

Dim lbl3 As New Label

lbl3.Text = name

lbl3.Width = System.Web.UI.WebControls.Unit.Point(255)

 

This shows up as

 

<span style="width:255pt;">

 

when I do a viewsource. IE displays the width fine

but Netscape 7.1 does not preserve the width of the

span.

 

I copied the <browsercaps> xml in the following page

 

http://slingfive.com/pages/code/browserCaps/

 

into my web.config but it didn't solve my problem.

 

Do you know how can I get nescape to display the

width properly?

 

Thank you,

 

Burak

[Derek Stone]

The "span" element is used for inline text and objects, which flow with the rest of the page's inline content. If you want to define a width and/or height, use a block-level element, such as "div".

[bri189a]

You can also get a normally inline element (such as span) to be displayed as a block element by using the style/display property... however as Derek said, you would just use DIV in this case. I often will do this trick when wanting to show links in a list instead of side by side... in reality it's just a lazy way of me avoiding the break tag in my html code.