X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4f4a,aebf519eeed7c8a9,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f4a,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,e8656e8782b25e98 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML Date: 1996/07/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 163874390 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: xemu.demon.co.uk references: <4rigs4$ed5@olorin.nask.pl> organization: 1st Canine Chapel of Bob Dobbs Dog (Church of the SubGenius) mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.html In article <4rigs4$ed5@olorin.nask.pl>, "Gl. Insp. Ochrony Srodowiska" writes >Have you any sugestion how put ascii art to ALT section in IMG tag? > >I don't want answer like: >:-) >It's trivial._____________/ > >I want to put someting like > __ > _7 |> > | _ | > \ \______, > / __ ; > \ _/ \ ) > | / |l > /_l /_l I don't think it can be done. The broswer treats text inside an alt="......" as ordinary text for typesetting i.e. (CR)s are stripped out from the input, and places it in one long horizontal box. 
...<\pre> has no effect
on this process.

Logically you would hope there is something like "\n" for
inserting end-of-line into a string.  If there is,
then it's not "\n".   Try alt.html !!!  





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