[TriLUG] OT: Help with Bounding Boxes?
Glenn Hennessee
hennesse at chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu
Wed Jul 14 10:01:42 EDT 2004
You can try padding. For example, if the element were a h1 then the css
would be:
h1 {padding-bottom: 10px;}
would add 10 pixels to the bottom. You can also specify percentages, ems,
etc.
glenn
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi,
> Anyone know lots about the bounding box on a marquee html element? My
> boss wants the scrolling text on his web page, but at the text size we're
> using, the underhanging portions of letters (I forget the technical term...
> the tails on ys and ps, for example) are being cut off. The strangest part
> is that on a coworker's 800x600 display, they look fine. However, on all
> the 1024x768 displays in the building, it's chopped. Is there a CSS
> directive I can use to make the clipping region taller so that the letters
> don't get clipped? I tried simply "height" but that didn't seem to help. I
> tried adding vertical-align: top; but that made it worse.
>
> Help please? And don't tell me "don't use marquee!" It's not my choice...
>
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
>
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