Photo borders

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Wally

I want to put a one-pixel black border around some photos. If I do it in
Photoshop Elements, it adds 1.5 kb to the size of a small photo, which seems
like a lot just for a little black line. The other solution is to put the
photo in a table with a one-pixel black border. The table looks fine on my
own browser (IE6), but will it look okay on older or non-IE browsers?

Wally
 
I'd stick with the border from Elements... then you don't have to worry
about all the odd things browsers can/will do. 1.5 is pretty small for the
control you gain.
Eleanor
 
Place the image into a single cell table, set table/cell width to zero, set
cell padding under table properties to 1 pixels of cell padding, set the
cell background color to black.

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Thanks for the great advice from both of you. Too bad it's in total
conflict. It's a little like double-speak from "1984": the ability to hold
two conflicting ideas in your mind at the same time and believe both of
them.

Wally
 
Wally,

My solution will work in IE and NS 3 and up browsers, and others that
support tables and background cell colors.

CSS styles assigned to table and cell borders is not well supported.

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Sounds good. And it does have the added advantage that I can easily change
border colors.

Concerning CSS, something like this seems easier to do in html, and it's
unlikely that I am ever going to do a global change. What I do with
something like this is that I have a special folder called "goto" and I will
put this table on its own page in that folder. Then, whenever I want to use
the table, I just insert the page. I also do this for things like "For more
photos click here."

Many thanks. And thanks to Eleanor for taking the time.

Wally
 
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