HTML and CSS Reference
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H.1.1.3. Creating blocks of space
The third spacer type creates a rectangular block of blank space, much
like a blank image. Set the
type
attribute to
block
and include three oth-
er attributes to fully define the space:
width
,
height
, and
align
.
The
width
and
height
attributes specify the size of the spacer in pixels or
as a percentage of the element containing the spacer. These attributes
are used only when the
type
attribute is set to
block
and otherwise are
ignored. Similarly, the
size
attribute is ignored when the
<spacer> type
is
block
. If specifying a size in pixels, you must give a positive integer
value to both the
width
and
height
attributes; their default value is
0
.
The third required block spacer attribute,
align
, controls how Netscape
4 places the empty block relative to the surrounding text. The values
for this attribute are identical to those for the
align
attribute in the
<img>
tag. Use the
top
,
texttop
,
middle
,
absmiddle
,
baseline
,
bottom
, and
absbottom
values to obtain the desired vertical alignment of the block
spacer. Use the
left
and
right
values to force the block spacer to the
indicated margin and cause the following text to flow up and around the
spacer. The default value is
bottom
. For a complete description of the
align
attribute and its values, see
section 4.1.1.1
.
This HTML fragment places the compass points around an empty area:
<center>
North
<br>
West
<spacer type=block width=50 height=50 align=absmiddle>
East
<br>
South
</center>
Figure H-3
shows the resulting document.
