hi, i need some explanation

u guys who use spacer gifs, why do u use it or is it ur editor that does such

thanks and waitin reply

@all pls feel free to post ur own questions for explanations here

i don't know what you even meant

it's mainly to create blank images. sometime it's used to create balance in design

obviously u use photoshop/fireworks to design your web graphics. those guys must have put it there for one or 2 reasons. a number of the pple who wrote those apps are members of W3C or at least understand the w3c standards

thanks aphoe

Sometimes you may want to creat blank space and you use it, it works fine but tricky sometimes.

Prior to the adoption of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the spacer GIF was a transparent image, often used to control blank space within a web page, that can be resized according to the width and height dimensions it is given.

Spacer GIFs are not browser specific. The reason a spacer GIF is invisible is so that an HTML developer can create a table cell and fill the background with a specific color that can be viewed through the transparent spacer GIF.

For instance, let's say the developer wants to create a blue box that is 500 x 500 pixels wide and high. Instead of using a separate blue graphic that is 500 x 500 pixels (taking up additional bandwidth), the developer can specify the table cell background color and specify the dimensions of the spacer GIF that already exists.

Source Cited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacer_GIF

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Usually HTML developer reply on using photoshop/firework software that automatically create space GIF when it export into Dreamweaver like @aphoe has said it all.

it is also used to set a column in a table as a fixed width

listen to uspry1.

spacer gifs r sooo 1990s. you should be coding with web standards in mind. Take advantage of CSS/XHTML and all they have to offer.

I am contemplating proposing to the criminal courts at the hague that any designer who mentions spacer gif should be hung from the gonads.