Web Design Garage

Creating End Signs

Here's another trick involving horizontal rules: By manipulating the width and size attributes, you can create boxes to position at the end of a section of text, much like a magazine signs off with an end sign, or a special character or bullet at the end of an article. See Figure 54.3 for an example.

Figure 54.3. Create solid or hollow boxes with horizontal rules. (The indents on the paragraphs come courtesy of the margin-left CSS attribute.)

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To create a box, set the width and size of the horizontal rule to the same amount:

hr size="10" width="10">

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