pre and center tags (was: "Re: Half Space Technique for html art")

In article <353...@on.spammer>, Veronica Karlsson
<dre...@on.spammer> wrote:
> 
> llizard wrote:
> > I have used the <center> outside the <pre> for the heading of my page.
[snip]
> >
> > to achieve the following llizard centered on the page:
> >
> >                                                      ,^
> >                                   ===%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >                                          "    "
> >
> > It works beautifully in Netscape Navigator 3.01 and MSIE 3.0 but I'm sad
> > to say that I *just* now looked to see if it really works in Lynx and it
> > looks like this there:
> >
> >                      ,^
> > ===%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > "    "
> >
> > Too bad! I will have to rethink it. I REALLY don't like the idea of not
> > being Lynx friendly. ASCII-art is the only visible graphics there and so
> > it seems a shame to have them messed up.
[snip]
> Try this (note that the right edge of the image is "filled out" with
> spaces. I have added a '|' character at the end of each line to
> visualise the right edge):
> 
> <center>
> <pre>
>                    ,^|
> ===%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  |
>        "    "        |
> </pre>
> </center>
> 
> And if you want to colour it I suggest you use this:
> 
> <center>
> <table><tr><td align=left bgcolor="#FFF6E9">
> <pre><font color="#008000">
>                    ,^|
> ===<font color="#0000FF">%</font>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  |
>        "    "        |
> </font></pre>
> </td></tr></table>
> </center>
> 
> where you specify colours for both the "text" and the background. This
> is to save the image from looking absolutely silly (or partly invisible)
> in newer browsers where you can set default colours but not the colours
> used in <font> and <td>.
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__/_VI___|    --- ==   >/      Thank you, Veronica
            [_____]  __>,^
       ejm98 |   |  //| |

I have now implimented what you suggested and FINALLY that llizard
llooks the way it should in Lynx (except that it's not centered).

__|____  ~---,
 !!!   |      \_,^%---
^^%--- |        >  \   Now I can happily go back
"__\___|_   ___/>       to the drawing board.
 /|\       (# o)>
/ | \       '-~/|^^
  |  \ ejm97   | \



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