CSS Borders?

[vabtz]

Has anyone ever asked if you can wrap your adsense in a div and drop a css border around it?

[OptiRex]

Hmmm...I've been doing that for the past couple of years blended within a table to make the ad block the correct size for its placement!

It's never occured to me that it may be against the T&Cs.

Why should it be? Any ideas?

[vabtz]

the div for placement and positioning should be fine but I am curious about how fancy I can frame the ad with the div. I don't want to get hit with the "undue attention" clause.

some ideas:

- dashed/dotted borders
- framing it in 2 divs, the outer one being a high contrast color, the inner being used for positioning only, align them up and left to make an L shaped border on the left and bottom. Taken the the next level you could use this to put a striped border around adsense.

AAAAc TextText
AAAAc TextText
AAAAc TextText
ccccc TextText
TextText TextT
TextText TextT
TextText TextT

[edited by: vabtz at 3:10 pm (utc) on Aug. 5, 2005]

[vabtz]

Oh and while I know this would get flagged a javascript blinking effect of the borders would be funny IMO. or a pulsing of the stripped colors..

[OptiRex]

Aha...I see where you're going...

How would a dotted emphasised border differ from an already permissible flourescent background colour drawing "undue attention" to the ads?

Good question...I'm reading through the T&C's right now, can ASA advise?

Personally I wouldn't want to do it since it may look tacky on my sites however it is a very valid query.

[vabtz]

My understanding is the intent of the rule it to not instruct the user but visual design is ok.

But who really knows.

[hyperkik]

Hmmm...I've been doing that for the past couple of years blended within a table to make the ad block the correct size for its placement!

It's never occured to me that it may be against the T&Cs.

I do that on a site that was reviewed by Google's optimization service, and they didn't say anything about it. I have a solid one pixel border around an ad block, and the optimizer's comment was that she liked that particular presentation. Infer what you will.