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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Jul 1996.
Re: Ascii-art in HTML
In article <4rmj35$2p...@Venus.mcs.com>, Jorn Barger <jor...@MCS.COM> writes
>
>There's a trick that supposedly works for some/many browsers,
>where you put
>
><pre>
><img alt="this
>should
>form
>a
>column" src=whatever.gif>
></pre>
>
>so that the alt text 'inherits' the surrounding text style.
>
>Be sure to replace "<" and ">" and "&" with "&lt;" and "&gt;" and "&amp;"
>
>
>I suspect there might be background/foreground colors that work
>especially well... anyone experimented with this?
>
Been there, done that, doesn't work on my (v1.2) Netscape

                      
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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/06
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