Re: background colour for forms?

LoneWolf wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer> wrote:
> > I do see that that could be useful. An
> > example is this type of "ascii animation" (which unfortunately only
> > works in Netscape.... If you can figure out a way to make it work in IE
> > as well I know some people who would be _very_ grateful...)
> >
> > http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/diver.html
> 
> As for your animated ASCII diver (very similar to my animated ASCII cow)

where?

(please note, I didn't write the javascript code, I just copied it from
somewhere. I didn't make the pictures in the animation either)

> the reason why it doesn't work on MSIE is because MSIE seems to use a
> non-monospaced font within TEXTAREAs, by default. 

That and remove all "unnecessary" whitespace... :(

> As such, the ASCII
> art doesn't look very good.  You might try adding the following to the
> HEAD section of your document:
> 
>     <STYLE>
>         TEXTAREA { font-family: monospace }
>     </STYLE>
> 
> This will tell the browser to use a monospaced font within the textarea.
> This doesn't work within MSIE3 (MSIE does not seem to support changing
> the FONT of the text in a TEXTAREA) but it might work in other
> CSS-enabled browsers.

And I have no way of testing this  :-/  (but maybe somebody else can
find this info useful so I'll crosspost to alt.ascii-art.animation)

--
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )

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