Graphical Divider

A Graphical Divider is a graphic element used to separate text in World Wide Web pages.

URLs:

Line graphics for your pages.

A nice collection of graphical dividers

The Web Designer

A great listing of topics relevant to the novice Web page designer

Print Resources:

• HTML Sourcebook. Ian S. Graham. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York. 1995. (ISBN 0 471-11849-4)

W3E References:

GIF

Detail:

Writers of Web pages use a simple language called HTML (Hypertext Mark- up Language) to convey their messages to the world via the World Wide Web. In order for a page to avoid being nothing more than a monotonous heap of uninterrupted text, a graphical divider is often used to give sections of text some elbow room.

Horizontal rule

The easiest way for a Web page designer to break up text with a graphic element is to employ the horizontal rule tag, which is one of the approved elements of HTML. The following is an example of a horizontal rule.

Custom Graphical Dividers

For the truly adventurous, the option exists to create custom graphical dividers. These can be created with a graphics program, or taken from the reference URL listed above. If a designer chooses to use a custom graphical divider, he must treat it as a full-fledged graphic by saving it as a GIF file and uploading it to the server. The custom graphic's URL would then need to be included in the HTML document.