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To: ShadowAce
Suggestion: add ->

<pre> ... </pre>

This pair forces browsers to temporarily use a "fixed font", and preserves spaces. That is extremely helpful to rapidly create a simple table so columns don't get fussed up, since nearly all "reply boxes", such as FR, use fixed font. This gives a WYSIWYG situation without using the complex table formatting in HTML and is useful for simple tabular information.

Example columns for pre:

State      Abbr.  Wind       Temperature
New York    NY     windy       cold
Penn        PA     "           cold
Florida     FL     hurricanes  nice
Illinois    Il    calm        warm

This is what it would have looked like without using pre./pre:

State Abbr. Wind Temperature
New York NY windy cold
Penn PA " cold
Florida FL hurricanes nice
Illinois Il calm warm

74 posted on 01/02/2013 9:50:30 AM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: AFPhys

Good Suggestion! I’ll try to add that to the next one.


75 posted on 01/02/2013 9:53:17 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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