Thanks for the responses, Alan.
 
> You have given no padding for the image div. 
I don't want padding because I have a border around the image and that
will create unwanted whitespace.

 > 1) You have no width in the html for the image (and no title is
needed). The 
> code should be.
> 
> <img src="innocents.jpg" alt="Innocents Abroad book cover"
width="200px" 
> height="295px" />
I didn't realize I had to specify a width and height. Seems to work
with or without the same way.

> 2) You have set the width for the paragraph in the html. This is 
> presentational.
Yes, but how else can I set width when the width varies from one
picture to the next, one page to the next?

 
> 3) The div.image img has a margin-left: 1em.
Yes it does. Why is that a problem? I don't get this one.

 
> 4) You have the image and paragraph caption floated instead of the
div.
Yes. If I float the div, the content in Firefox doesn't appear until
below the div. Can't have that.


> 
> div.image {
>       height: auto;
>       width: auto;
>       padding: 20px;
>       margin: 0 0 20px 20px;
>       float: right;
> }
> div.image img {
>       border: 1px solid #000;
>       width: 200px;
>       width: 295px;
> }
You meant height on the 295. But I can't do this because not all my
images are the same size. I could create a separate class for each
image, but that would be horrific in a site with dozens, if not
hundreds, of images.

> p.imgcaption {
>       border: 1px solid #000;
>       font-family: verdana, sans-serif;
>       font-size: .7em;
>       text-align: center;
>       margin: 0;
>       padding-left: 10px;
>       padding-right: 10px;
> }
I think I see what you are doing. You are adding padding to the image,
which allows padding to be added on the imgcaption. But, as stated
earlier, I can't have padding on the image because that creates
whitespace between the border and the image.

I realize that captioning images is a problem. The W3 has recognized
this and I think it's part of the CSS3 proposal. So maybe I just work
within the limitations. No padding on the caption for Wednesday's
workshop, that's for sure!


-- 

Skip Knox
Boise State University
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