I punted, and went with a css background image with padding. works fine, and i feel lighter using css.
thanks, though, i may try these suggestions tonight. too many hours invested to not solve it, even though the project has moved on. Thanks a ton for the leads. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mark Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jerry Johnson wrote: >> I have been beating my head against this for a few hours. >> >> I have some existing code I need to style properly. I cannot (at this >> time) change the html elements, just need to get them working right. >> >> Trying to add an icon image to the end of a string. In ff and safari, >> no problem. In IE without the anchor, no problem. In IE, the image is >> treated as a block (line break before and after, putting the image on >> its own line) >> >> <h1><span>TITLE</span> <span><img></span></h1> >> >> <h1><a><span>TITLE</span> <span><img></span></a></h1> >> >> Any suggestions (other than rewriting the html) to make the img stay >> on the same line? >> >> I made the image display:inline, and tried a thousand variations of >> float and display and every other style. And it works sometimes (about >> 1 refresh out of 6 shows it inline as desired. The rest do not > > Hi Jerry, > > The float wont work since the image comes AFTER the rest of the heading, > so that's out. Display: inline on the image wont work because the > heading is a block level element and it sounds like the anchor is also, > causing it to drop to a new line. However, you could try making the > entire h1 element inline and see if that works, or you could make sure > the anchor is also display:inline, since you mention IE works without > this. Alternatively, with the code as it stands, you may try adding > position:relative to the h1, and position:absolute;top:0;right;0 to the > icon. That should work. > > If you have a link we could take a look at, that would definitely be > helpful and I can assure you someone on this list will get it working. > > Oh, and Tony I haven't forgotten, I'm looking at your site now so more > to come! > > adieu > Mark > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297155 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
