RE: Side-by-side images

[<rob.cavicchio@emc.com>]

David Goss [mailto:dgoss@mueller-inc.com] wrote:

> What is the proper way to display two images side-by-side?
> 
> The way I do this now is to put two <inlinemediaobjects> into a <para>.
> The HTML output is two images side-by-side aligned to the left. Playing
> with the align attribute in the <imagedata> tags results in text for
> the
> proceeding paragraphs to creep up in the space between them, since they
> are inline. Using the <mediaobject> would separate the images onto two
> different lines.
> 
> <para>
> 	<inlinemediaobject>
> 		<imageobject>
> 			<imagedata fileref='...' />
> 		</imageobject>
> 	</inlinemediaobject>
> 	<inlinemediaobject>
> 		<imageobject>
> 			<imagedata fileref='...' />
> 		</imageobject>
> 	</inlinemediaobject>
> </para>
> 
> 
> I feel like I'm tagging these images wrong. <inlinemediaobject> doesn't
> really describe the content here since they're not *really* inline.


Why do you say that the images are not really inline? I would define an inline element as one that does not cause a line break, which is exactly what you want.


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Rob Cavicchio
rob.cavicchio@emc.com

Principal Technical Writer & Information Architect
Information Intelligence Group
EMC Corporation

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