The SPACER Tag

Netscape's answer to the spacer gif: an element whose only job was to take up room.

In 2026: Dead. Netscape 3 and 4 shipped it, Gecko kept honouring it in quirks mode until Firefox 4 in 2011, and nothing renders it now, so the block below collapses to nothing. Use margin or padding.

Where it came from: Netscape Navigator 3.0 HTML extensions, 1996. Never proposed to the W3C. MDN ↗

<!-- Push down 40 pixels -->
Top of page.<spacer type="vertical" size="40">Forty pixels lower.

<!-- Indent 30 pixels -->
<spacer type="horizontal" size="30">Indented text.

<!-- A rectangular hole in the flow -->
<spacer type="block" width="100" height="60" align="left">
Text wraps around the hole.