HTML element - SPACER

Does anyone have any info on it?

[chris_f]

Hi Guys,

I'm going through a clients website and a HTML element called SPACER keeps cropping up. It looks like this:

<SPACER height="1" width="1" type="block">

Does anyone know what it does? Is it legit? What browsers does it work in? etc...

Many Thanks
Chris

[korkus2000]

I found this at netscape
[developer.netscape.com...]

<added>
here is some good info
[fluffbucket.com...]
</added>

[chris_f]

Ok. I've read about it and it seems legit. However, I'm still not sure about the browser compatibility. Am I better if inserting a transparent images?

Chris

[BlobFisk]

This seems to be an old netscape tag, and I don't think that IE will render it (at least in my test IE6 didn't!).

AFAIK it's not a valid HTML4.01 or XHTML tag.

[korkus2000]

Its not in the W3C spec for any html and only webTV and Netscape render it.

Am I better if inserting a transparent images?

If it is for the internet yes.

[Nick_W]

Unless you'd like to try the easy way and use margin/padding ;) in css?

Nick