background colour for forms?

LoneWolf wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer> wrote:
> > I do see that that could be useful. An
> > example is this type of "ascii animation" (which unfortunately only
> > works in Netscape.... If you can figure out a way to make it work in IE
> > as well I know some people who would be _very_ grateful...)
> >
> > http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/diver.html
> 
> As for your animated ASCII diver (very similar to my animated ASCII cow)

where?

(please note, I didn't write the javascript code, I just copied it from
somewhere. I didn't make the pictures in the animation either)

> the reason why it doesn't work on MSIE is because MSIE seems to use a
> non-monospaced font within TEXTAREAs, by default. 

That and remove all "unnecessary" whitespace... :(

> As such, the ASCII
> art doesn't look very good.  You might try adding the following to the
> HEAD section of your document:
> 
>     <STYLE>
>         TEXTAREA { font-family: monospace }
>     </STYLE>
> 
> This will tell the browser to use a monospaced font within the textarea.
> This doesn't work within MSIE3 (MSIE does not seem to support changing
> the FONT of the text in a TEXTAREA) but it might work in other
> CSS-enabled browsers.

And I have no way of testing this  :-/  (but maybe somebody else can
find this info useful so I'll crosspost to alt.ascii-art.animation)

--
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )

Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> 
> LoneWolf wrote:
> > Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer> wrote:
> > > this type of "ascii animation" (which unfortunately only
> > > works in Netscape.... If you can figure out a way to make it work in IE
> > > as well I know some people who would be _very_ grateful...)
[snip]
> > the reason why it doesn't work on MSIE is because MSIE seems to use a
> > non-monospaced font within TEXTAREAs, by default.
> 
> That and remove all "unnecessary" whitespace... :(
> 
> > As such, the ASCII
> > art doesn't look very good.  You might try adding the following to the
> > HEAD section of your document:
> >
> >     <STYLE>
> >         TEXTAREA { font-family: monospace }
> >     </STYLE>
> >
> > This will tell the browser to use a monospaced font within the textarea.
> > This doesn't work within MSIE3 (MSIE does not seem to support changing
> > the FONT of the text in a TEXTAREA) but it might work in other
> > CSS-enabled browsers.
> 
> And I have no way of testing this  :-/  (but maybe somebody else can
> find this info useful so I'll crosspost to alt.ascii-art.animation)

As far as I know, the solution for getting the java-script animations to
work in MSIE, is to add \r to your end lines. It's easier to explain by
illustration:

"                                          ,^ \r\n"+
"                    -----%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   \r\n"+
"                     ha /     \"   \"        \r\n"+
"                       /                       \r",

(Whereas before, I used \n"+ only)

It works in MSIE (I think - I can't test it) if you aren't running
windows95

Here, try it, and tell me if I'm wrong.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/ll_eats.html


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