So my first comment was from Brogan, who by the way has an awesome tune by Corvus Corax posted on his page (as everyone who knows him already knows). He posted an image in the comment, but the image was wide, and at least on my machine it was too wide - moving the rest of the myspace profile page around to compensate for it. To take a little control over this aspect of my personal space on myspace was a priority for me and I found that it’s fairly easy to set some restrictions.

I don’t know (yet) how much of myspace can be controlled in this manner, but poking around I found that you can grab some snippets of CSS (I don’t know if this is all officially documented someplace or not, please point me to it if so), but as those of you who have heavily modified your myspace profiles already know, you can apparently put your own CSS in anywhere in your profile. I found that this simple bit will set your comment images to 260px wide (which seemed appropriate to me):

<br /> <style type="text/css">td img {width:260px; max-width:260px; width:auto;}</style> <p>What this says basically is that any image found in a table data cell will be set to 260px.

It was easier to control the image size than post the code on this blog entry! After a little more searching I
found this guy who had a lot more helpful hints, which is where I found the xmp tag which allows you to post HTML (and in this case, CSS) on myspace. He’s got a lot of links to other myspace mod sites which I haven’t bothered to check out.

Annoyances: When I go back and edit the post, I find br (breaks) in the code wherever I had a RETURN which I imagine is a function of the plain text blog editor, and the xmp tags seem to act like H tags in that they stick a lot of whitespace before and after themselves. I assume I can fix that up with some CSS, but will not bother right now.