Actually, I ran some experimental styling on the element in my last
design project, and found the following:
Firefox (1.5beta) and Opera (9beta) allow full customization of the
element. That's a good sign for the future, but I've yet to test it in
earlier versions.
IE (6, quirks mode) insis
After posting I sat down and took the styling to pieces. This might
help someone else.
I started off with just the tag inside a that had a 'clear:
both' rule to stop it overwriting other elements.
Then I applied the styling rule of style and hide from [1]. A bit of
tweaking gave me a graphi
Work is continuing apace on the site I am working on:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/graham.reeds/space
Sometimes I need to split the page into two or more logical blocks.
Naturally a horizontal rule would be the ideal divider for this.
However the current method uses three images to blend it i