Re: IMG ALIGN discrepancy: error or intentional?

Eric Bina (ebina@netscape.com)
Fri, 12 May 95 23:08:45 EDT

> I'm using netscape 1b3 on Linux to view
> http://www.portal.com/~sedit/xeditgui.html
> and the text following the <img> follows the align attribute. In fact,
> experimenting with a local copy of the page, text before and after
> <img> follows align=. I think TomM is correct. At least netscape practice
> is to align text before and after the image. To the extent that it fits
> one one line.

No. The image is aligned with the text before. The text after has its
baseline aligned with the baseline of the text before, so if the text before
and after are the same size, it will look like it is aligned with both, but
that is just luck, it is only aligned with the text before.

If the text after was say a bigger font than the text before, then the
only way to make the image align with the middle of both would be to make
the text baselines not line up which is bad bad bad.

For many alignment options there is no reasonable way to make it line
up with both sides properly.

Eric