To download any of these images, right-click (Windows) or click-and-hold (Macintosh) on them; then select "Save image as..." and choose a directory on your hard drive where you'd like to save them. First off, the individual pieces appear below. After those you can see some samples of how this border design looks when the pieces are put together. THE PIECES EXAMPLE ONE EXAMPLE TWO LAYOUT TIPS THE PIECES (6) - All have transparent backgrounds   03-02.gif Size: 1.58K 03-01.gif Size: 1.2K   03-03.gif Size: 1.7K 03-04.gif Size: 340 bytes 03-05.gif Size: 341 bytes     03-06.gif Size: 1.4K EXAMPLE ONE You can flow text in this center section, and add additional side pieces to make the border as tall as you like. The center cel directly above this one contains a transparent GIF, 150 pixels wide, at the top to enforce the column spacing. This text is contained in a table nested within the main table. This design offers a solution to the problem of flowing text within borders that are closed at the bottom - by not being closed at the bottom. It's likely to be the easiest one for you to adapt to your own use, since all you really need to do is to copy the HTML for the example, flow in your own content, and add vertical border sections to make up the height of the text. Alignment within the table cels is crucial, but again, just use the example code as your model and you should be fine. A <BR> (line break) tag follows each vertical border section. The only other thing to bear in mind is that in this example I'm using a transparent GIF file to enforce the column spacing. You'd need to do the same, or something similar, in your own project. The lower version's table uses a border attribute of 1 to show you the table structure. Remember to read the Layout Tips. EXAMPLE TWO Copies of the border can be stacked to frame subsections of a page. Just be sure that if you do this, you include enough vertical sections to fully frame your content even if the user's fonts size is very large. Also you can see here that because the pieces use a transparent background, you can change the color within the border. Remember to read the Layout Tips.

1. Remember that each of these pieces is downloaded only once by the web browser. That means that there's no additional download time for each of the repeating sections.

2. This border's left open at the bottom, so you don't need to worry so much about the user's font size forcing the design apart. However you should still probably add an extra vertical section below the end of your content to allow for larger font sizes.

3. Be sure that your table sets its border size, cel padding, and cel spacing all to zero - otherwise there will be gaps in the design. On some browsers if these attributes are not set they may default to one, not zero.

4. This design uses a transparent background (the exposed interior is transparent) so you can set the table color to whatever you like, as in some of the examples.

5. Using a small transparent GIF, as I do here, is a handy layout trick. HTML isn't a perfect layout medium and sometimes you just need to force your elements to go together the way you want them.

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