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Rawdog156
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Nov 6, 2007, 9:17 PM

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auto break coding between PML tags and banners? Can't Post
I have all my PML tags set up for my daily updates but i'm having one problem. The pictures (banners) that I set up all have these ABSOLUTE left and TOP #'s built in (I built my site through Yahoo Sitebuilder and later learned to add the PP PML Tags). What I can't figure out how to do is get my PML tags to "auto" divide the space between my pictures - Basically if I enter more than 6 lines of text, I have to lower the font down to 10 or 8 so that it doesn't block out my images and overlap with them.

I am guessing it's a simple HTML code problem with <div> and tables - for instance, this is my code for the PML tag that overlaps my banner

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10">
<tr>
<td width="895">
<!-- publish type="wysiwyg" name="Todays Picks3!" rows=7 format="html" --><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="3"><font size="2">Last pick tonight I like the Hawks going to New Jersey. The Hawks had a win&nbsp;against a great team in Detroit the other night but the Pistons experience&nbsp;cost them a loss. The Hawks are playing TOUGH right now and looking great.&nbsp;Tonight I'm playing&nbsp;another 10 units on the Hawks getting +3 against the Nets</font>&nbsp;</font></p><!-- /publish -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</div>

Do I need to add another <div> or <br soft> tag at the end of this? Or does cellpadding affect where the text outlays? Or maybe table border should be 3 or 4? Is that the problem causing the overlap? I have really learned a ton from you guys - I was just wondering if their was a little thing I just don't know about that might help me with my overlap problem - I don't like to change the absolute position of the banners everytime I have more to say -

Thanks in advance -


Donna
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Nov 7, 2007, 1:52 PM

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Re: [Rawdog156] auto break coding between PML tags and banners? [In reply to] Can't Post
What you've got there actually looks just fine. I'm guessing that there's some other code outside of that bit that's giving you the issues with the overlapping. WYSIWYG editors like SiteBuilder often add in a lot of unnecessary code that ends up causing issues like this, so it'll more likely be a case of removing some extra tags, rather than adding some in. Changing the cellspacing, cellpadding, and the border won't make any difference here.

Also, if you're using absolute positioning... well, you're likely to always run into issues like this. Absolute positioning is just that -- it goes where you tell it to, other text on the page be darned.

But overall... I'd need to take a look at the whole page to see where the issue is -- the little bit you've copied here isn't it. :)

Donna

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Rawdog156
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Nov 7, 2007, 2:25 PM

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Re: [Donna] auto break coding between PML tags and banners? [In reply to] Can't Post
here is the text for the banner that tends to get overlapped - should i put something in the beginning or end of this so that it doesn't get in the way? Thanks!

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div id="e24" style="position:absolute;left:200;top:770;width:600;height:74;"><a href="http://www.betus.com/ats/mid/1460/sportsbook/default.aspx" target="_blank"><img src="images/BETUSBANNER5.gif" width="600" height="74" border="0" alt=""></a>
</div>
<!--$begin exclude$-->


Jake
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Nov 8, 2007, 3:55 PM

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Re: [Rawdog156] auto break coding between PML tags and banners? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Rawdog156,

Thanks for getting back to us!

As Donna mentioned, it's tough to tell what could be happening without looking at all of the code on the web page. This snippet of code you posted might be causing the problem though:

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 <div id="e24" style="position:absolute;left:200;top:770;width:600;height:74;">

The problem here could be related to the absolute positioning given to this div. You might want to play around with those style attributes to see if you can figure this out. Smile
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