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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Apr 1998.
Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?

Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?

Joseph Abbott (jabbott@{remove}lynx.bc.ca) wrote:
: You can also center <pre> formatted text by putting it in a single
: celled table:

: <div align=center>
: <table>
: <tr><td>
: <pre>
: ascii pics in here
: </pre>
: </td></tr>
: </table>
: </div>

I'd also add align=left to the PRE. And DIV is indeed better here than
CENTER. (Think of browsers that understand CENTER but neither tables nor
align attributes.)

<div align=center>
<table><tr><td>
<pre align=left>
   )
 ((
|:""|-,
|:  |/
'---'
</pre>
</td></tr></table>
</div>

-- 
Ilmari Karonen (ilt...@sci.fi)
http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/

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From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)
Subject: Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?
Date: 1998/04/20
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