Thanks Jim for your quick response. I tried that and the line shows as thick black line in the HTML editor preview, but in all the browsers I tried (Firefox, IE8.0,Chrome, Opera, Safari) the line was transparent, not black. Although it did pass the HTML validation test. I thought it was perhaps because I was using HTML 4.01 for the Document type, but after testing it in XHTML 1.0 I found the same thing.It shows in the preview but does not show as black in the browsers rather it is a transparent line. The more pixels you set the height to, the bigger the transparent line box. If only it would fill up! Madeleine Mitchell On 4/17/2010 11:37 PM, Jim Rickenbacker(3) wrote: > Certainly: > > Use<hr style="color: black; height: 10px; width: 100%;"> > Set the color, height and width to whatever you want. > > Jim Rickenbacker > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Madeleine E Mitchell"<mitchel1@bellsouth.net> > To:<ROOTSWEB-HELP@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 9:18 PM > Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Horizontal rule > > > >> Hi, >> Can anyone say how I can get the horizontal rule<hr> line thicker in >> the page Jamaica Index page >> <http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejamwgw/index.htm> >> and still have it pass W3C Html test and Css validation? >> Thanks >> Madeleine >> >> -- >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Madeleine E Mitchell, Dunnellon, FL 34432-2795, Home URL http://users.pullman.com/mitchelm/jamaica.htm World Gen Web Jamaica URL http://www.rootsweb.com/~jamwgw/index.htm

Madeleine, Sorry, use background-color instead of color, i.e. <hr style="background-color: black; height: 10px; width: 100%;"> That works in IE, Firefox and Opera. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Madeleine E Mitchell" <mitchel1@bellsouth.net> To: <rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 10:51 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Horizontal rule > Thanks Jim for your quick response. I tried that and the line shows as > thick black line in the HTML editor preview, but in all the browsers I > tried (Firefox, IE8.0,Chrome, Opera, Safari) the line was transparent, > not black. Although it did pass the HTML validation test. I thought > it was perhaps because I was using HTML 4.01 for the Document type, but > after testing it in XHTML 1.0 I found the same thing.It shows in the > preview but does not show as black in the browsers rather it is a > transparent line. The more pixels you set the height to, the bigger the > transparent line box. If only it would fill up! > > Madeleine Mitchell > > > On 4/17/2010 11:37 PM, Jim Rickenbacker(3) wrote: >> Certainly: >> >> Use<hr style="color: black; height: 10px; width: 100%;"> >> Set the color, height and width to whatever you want. >> >> Jim Rickenbacker >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Madeleine E Mitchell"<mitchel1@bellsouth.net> >> To:<ROOTSWEB-HELP@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 9:18 PM >> Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Horizontal rule >> >> >> >>> Hi, >>> Can anyone say how I can get the horizontal rule<hr> line thicker in >>> the page Jamaica Index page >>> <http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejamwgw/index.htm> >>> and still have it pass W3C Html test and Css validation? >>> Thanks >>> Madeleine >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > -- > Madeleine E Mitchell, > Dunnellon, FL 34432-2795, > Home URL http://users.pullman.com/mitchelm/jamaica.htm > World Gen Web Jamaica URL http://www.rootsweb.com/~jamwgw/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Jim, I appreciate your help. That works very well in Chrome and Safari also. Madeleine On 4/19/2010 12:10 AM, Jim Rickenbacker(3) wrote: > Madeleine, > > Sorry, use background-color instead of color, i.e. > <hr style="background-color: black; height: 10px; width: 100%;"> > That works in IE, Firefox and Opera. > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Madeleine E Mitchell"<mitchel1@bellsouth.net> > To:<rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 10:51 PM > Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Horizontal rule > > > >> Thanks Jim for your quick response. I tried that and the line shows as >> thick black line in the HTML editor preview, but in all the browsers I >> tried (Firefox, IE8.0,Chrome, Opera, Safari) the line was transparent, >> not black. Although it did pass the HTML validation test. I thought >> it was perhaps because I was using HTML 4.01 for the Document type, but >> after testing it in XHTML 1.0 I found the same thing.It shows in the >> preview but does not show as black in the browsers rather it is a >> transparent line. The more pixels you set the height to, the bigger the >> transparent line box. If only it would fill up! >> >> Madeleine Mitchell >> >> >> On 4/17/2010 11:37 PM, Jim Rickenbacker(3) wrote: >> >>> Certainly: >>> >>> Use<hr style="color: black; height: 10px; width: 100%;"> >>> Set the color, height and width to whatever you want. >>> >>> Jim Rickenbacker >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Madeleine E Mitchell"<mitchel1@bellsouth.net> >>> To:<ROOTSWEB-HELP@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 9:18 PM >>> Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Horizontal rule >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Can anyone say how I can get the horizontal rule<hr> line thicker in >>>> the page Jamaica Index page >>>> <http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejamwgw/index.htm> >>>> and still have it pass W3C Html test and Css validation? >>>> Thanks >>>> Madeleine >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- Madeleine E Mitchell, Dunnellon, FL 34432-2795, Home URL http://users.pullman.com/mitchelm/jamaica.htm World Gen Web Jamaica URL http://www.rootsweb.com/~jamwgw/index.htm