Sansibar

When I write a regular news item and add a pic, set this to left alignment and ad it as usual by using the mosimage tag, then the pic is not exactly aligned on the left border, in line with the text frame.
But the position of the pic is always a few pixels or about 1 letter away from the text border to the inside.
For an example, see sansi.ch

How to left align the pic exactly with the left article-text-border?

Thanks and rgds
Thomas

er16004

What you are seeing is the default horizontal space (hspace=6) attribute that is assigned to {mosimage}.

This is described in detail along with 2 options for editing here: How to Hack the {mosimage} tag?

Sansibar

Ok thanks.
Works fine for me.

Only why was this hspace=6 implemented in the first place? I mean it breaks the layout completely. Was there any reasoning behind from the developers?

rgds
Thomas

er16004

I may not be qualified to answer this since I'm not a Mambo developer, but I am a designer and the spacing around images is needed so text won't sit right next the image causing it to look really bad (for the same reason article columns on the frontpage should have a little space in between them which most template designs don't account for). It also depends on what template you use. One template might adjust for this while others may not. I believe the PDF, Print & Email icons on your articles take advantage of this so they have some visual styling to them.

What it comes down to is it's just better webdesign. For example, why use bold lettering when blinking text grabs your attention more? Because using blinking text is a bad way to design a website.