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H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Mar 5, 2024 07:53 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 01:51 AM:

Is this fixable?

It is easily fixable, and I think fixing it is long overdue, as it looks very amateurish.

The fix is to display the piece images not as content of the table cells, but as background. So instead of something like

<td style="width:50px;height:50px"><img src="xxx"/></td>

you would generate something like

<td style="width:50px;height:50px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:center center;background-image=url(\"xxx\")"></td>

(where the extensive style specification can of course be achieved through a CSS class). You can then highlight through a border with negative margins. This is how I got rid of these annoying expansion/contraction effects in the Interactive Diagram. (But there I highlight by small symbol images displayed as content of the cell.)

If the cell backgrounds have transparent parts, you see either the specified cell background color there. Or, when no valid color is defined, the background of the surrounding (<table>) element. So you can still use full-board images as background.

The problem is that browsers refuse to fit 50x50 images in 50x50 cells, because they align the bottom of the image with the text line it is on, and text lines need extra space below them for the 'true descenders' on letters like j, p and q. So they always leave some space below the image, even if there is no text at all in the cell. How much depends on the font size that currently applies, but it is not possible to set that to 0.


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