A few HTML3.2 questions

I've seen many FrontPage-Based Websites, I kind of have a few questions that came up to my mind while checking the websites.

I kind of feel like VBForums is more accurate to post rather than most HTML forums, primarily because of the age of VBForums.

1. How to stretch the inserted image of an

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background=""

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attribute, the left blue part on seemingly default style seems to be stretched down without any CSS supporting it,

2. Is there a way to mark text's background? <font> tag can change the foreground color, I had the idea of a single cell table to do it but it seems to create a newline

3. How to replace the bullet points <ul> use with an image? seen websites do it.

4. Is there a way to set Tahoma to exactly 8px? Setting using

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<font size="1">

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makes it smaller than 8px, and size 2 makes it larger than 8px

Hi there gaouser,

HTML 3.2 was superceded by HTML 4.01 26 years ago.

HTML Versions

We now have...

HTML Living Standard — Last Updated 6 September 2025

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Originally Posted by coothead

Hi there gaouser,

HTML 3.2 was superceded by HTML 4.01 26 years ago.

HTML Versions

We now have...

HTML Living Standard — Last Updated 6 September 2025

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Making legacy pages for fun.

There are many HTML 3.2 books available on archive.org. Note that you'll need an archive.org account to check out and view these books.

https://archive.org/details/teachyourselfweb0000lema
https://archive.org/details/teachyou...b0000lema_c9h6
https://archive.org/details/usinghtml32java10000ladd
https://archive.org/details/html32plushowto0000kerv
https://archive.org/details/html32cgiunleash0000dece

TLDR; HTML3.2 was a hellscape, don't do this to yourself.

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Originally Posted by gaouser

1. How to stretch the inserted image of an

HTML Code:

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background=""

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attribute, the left blue part on seemingly default style seems to be stretched down without any CSS supporting it

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Impossible.

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Originally Posted by gaouser

2. Is there a way to mark text's background? <font> tag can change the foreground color, I had the idea of a single cell table to do it but it seems to create a newline

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Close, set the cellpadding attribute of the table to 0:

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<table bgcolor="#FFFF00" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td><font color="red">This text has a yellow</font> background</td>
  </tr>
</table>

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Originally Posted by gaouser

3. How to replace the bullet points <ul> use with an image? seen websites do it.

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Impossible using an unordered list, you could use a table though.

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Originally Posted by gaouser

Is there a way to set Tahoma to exactly 8px? Setting using

HTML Code:

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<font size="1">

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makes it smaller than 8px, and size 2 makes it larger than 8px

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Impossible to specify an exact pixel size, you're totally reliant on the browser/system.