Back to the basic: Question about those dotted lines.

What are they? Spacers?

[skunker]

Here's a simple question:

I've seen this a lot, but how do you create those little "dashed" lines that are very common with clean webpages. For example, Google adsense uses these "dots" in their webpage:

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Are those spacers? Images? Thanks.

[edited by: korkus2000 at 6:41 pm (utc) on Dec. 20, 2004]
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[dmorison]

View source and have a look ;)

[faltered]

That was a trick I learned in college. A professor showed us how to use the good ole' period for that. Nothing more, nothing less.

[SlyGuy]

In the Adsense example you used, it's just an image:

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There are several ways to accomplish the dotted lines (including using CSS), but as Faltered mentioned, one of the easiest is to simply use a row of periods :)

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Sly.

[skunker]

So are the rows of dots in a table?

[smokeyb]

The easiest way to do this, is to use a gif 2px by 1px. The first pixel is the colour of the dot (eg: black) and the second the background colour (eg: white). There are different ways to display them and you could use a table.
HTH

[smokeyb]

And to add, you can also use this method vertically which is a limit of using the "period" method.
Smokey