From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2008-11-06T09:28:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Stylesheet not honored; directory access thwarted

On Nov 5, 4:14 pm, Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroe...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:48 PM, RichardOnRails
>
> <RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> > The toy has a few blemishes:
> > 1.  I included CSS to center the link,  but it's rendered left-
> > justified.
>
> An anchor is not a block element, hence is only as wide as its content.
> (Also, the 'position: relative' is meaningless in the example shown.)
>
> > 2.  I expected the filenames in the imports sub-directory to be
> > displayed, but they were not.
>
> I'm guessing you think that a URL can contain wildcards; it can't.
>
> If you use ` href="/imports/"` and your server allows directory listing,
> you'll see the files listed.
>
> HTH,
>
> H*
> --
> Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroe...@gmail.com

Hi Hassan,

Excellent guidance!

I got centering of my link working both with in-line styling and
external CSS.
And I also got a directory listing from Firefox.

You're batting 1000.  Thanks a lot!

Best wishes,
Richard