Creating HTML document question

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007, Scott Walker wrote:
>Using the following:
>
>Fp 5.0.15 rclerk
>
>I am creating an html documents from processing.  One of my lines of
>code to create is as follows:
>
>html :td :al "left"   ; html :tx fp ; html :td -
>
>
>The variable fp contains:
>
>"Test Item Stuff        $275.00      "
>
>When I create the html document and view or print it, I get:
>
>"Test Item Stuff $275.00             "
>
>
>Any clue as to why the spaces are dropped?

Because HTML, like xml, pretty much ignores multiple spaces
unless one is in a <pre>...</pre> block.

Formatting such as you want here is normally done with tables,
letting the browser format it, perhaps using cascading style
sheets to control overall format.

<table>
 <tr>
  <th align="LEFT">Test Item Stuff</th>
  <td align="RIGHT>"$275.00</td>
 </tr>
</table>

Bill
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