Creating HTML document question

[Bruce Easton]

Scott Walker wrote Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:55 PM:

[..]
> 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?
> 

Scott - in html, in general, whitespace characters in a row 
including newlines, tabs, spaces are collapsed into a single space 
wherever they appear in the output.  In addition, leading and trailing 
whitespace is eliminated.

There are several ways to preserve, position, and align:  one 
would be to use more than one <td> in a row each with its own 
width and alignment (since you are already using a table here); 
another would be the application of style attributes such as 
margin-left, padding, etc.

Also, if you already know some html, then it would be easier 
for you to use only three fp html commands:

:cr, :cl and :tx

and output all of your document from just after the opening of 
the head section  thru </body> with the html :tx command.

or you can use the technique of using the open and close file 
commands and writing your output documents that way.  Just a 
lot easier than keeping track of two languages at once.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.