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[venta]

Yet another boring geeky work question.

I have the following html:

<div style="background-color: #C7C7FE;
border-style: solid;
border-color: blue;
border-width: 0.25pt;
padding: 1pt">
<p class="instruction">Get to bed immediately.</p></div>
<div><img src="picture_of_bed.png"></div>

(OK, I've changed some of the text, but the markup's the same.)

Its job is to print "Get to bed immediately" in a nice blue box, and then a picture underneath. Unfortunately, it doesn't look very good because the picture and the blue box are jammed right up against each other instead of having space between.

The html is auto-generated (by and XSLT transform thingy), so it's not something I can do anything about without serious knowledge of XSL stylesheets. However, I could wrap another <div> tag round the <div> that contains the image, and give it some properties which added a little padding... if only I knew what those properties were.

I've tried:

<div style="padding: 1pt">
<div><img src="picture_of_bed.png"></div>
</div>

but that doesn't seem to be the answer. My html skills start to fail after headings and paragraphs, so can anyone suggest a property (or anything else) I might want to investigate ?

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

A div with padding now does what I'd expect, too. I guess I somehow failed at rebuilding the html when I tried that earlier.

I really must work out how to fix my makefile so that it rebuilds things if the stylesheet has changed instead of just if the XML has changed. Maybe I forgot to touch the XML before building or something.

I think it was more "divvies" round our way.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

IIRC, add a line:

%.html : stylesheet.xsl

pretty much anywhere in your makefile (maybe not first).

Since there's no tab-indented stuff underneath it, it's not a rule, just a dependency, and it adds to any dependencies elsewhere for the same target. I think. I could be wrong.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

On the same subject, I generally make any target with non-trivial rules dependent on the makefile itself, as well as any stylesheets, scripts etc used to generate it.