Thanks to all of you who responded - I'll try these out and I'm sure they will solve the problem.
Regards, Ian. -- Dr Ian M Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: ianmpiper -- Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? On 10 Apr 2006, at 3:02 am, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Ian Piper wrote: >> I wonder whether someone could advise. I want to put pull-quotes in >> various parts of a site. I thought I would do it with two styles, and >> attach a background image (of open and close quotes) to each style. >> Then I would use one at the beginning and the other at the end of the >> quote. Styles are below. However, as you can see from this test >> page: >> >> >> http://www.tellura.co.uk/quotetest.htm >> >> the close quote symbol is obscured by the text above. I'm not sure >> where to go next with this. Can anyone suggest a solution? > > It isn't obscured - it is cut off because the paragraph isn't tall > enough to hold the entire background-image. > > The following style-changes... > > #quotation1 p { > background-image: url(closequo.gif); > background-position: bottom right; > background-repeat: no-repeat; > font: 14px "Trebuchet MS", Times, serif; > font-style: italic; > color: #777777; > padding-top: 40px; /* more space on top */ > margin-top: -40px; /* move back up */ > margin-bottom: 0; > } > > ...will make it render just fine. Whether or not that's the correct > way > to mark up a quotation is another matter. > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
