Re: Forcing a new line for images

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:37 PM 09/20/2000 -0400, Todd Willis wrote:
> I have a large collection of articles that have multiple images. A vendor
> created a "basic" style sheet that formats the images as follows:
>
> <xsl:template match="picture">
>   <IMG ALIGN="left" vspace="2" hspace="8"><xsl:attribute
> name="SRC">images/<xsl:value-of select="@href" /></xsl:attribute></IMG>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Everything works fine unless the text associated with an image isn't long
> enough to push the successive image "down" the page far enough. So the HTML
> output produces a "stair stepping" of images and text.
>
> I need to be able to change the style sheet to force a new line for each
> image but being a "newbie," I haven't cracked the code.

Not exactly an XSLT solution, but consider putting an empty <br 
clear="left" /> or <br clear="right /> element into the result tree after 
the "text associated with an image" (which your template above doesn't 
show) or before the <IMG> element's start tag.

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