Rolf Mortenson wrote: >Could someone please explain the use of display:table-cell? > >I can never seem to get my brain around the how's and why's > >Like, why wouldn't you use a table instead of using divs that act >like tables and table cells? > > Here's another reason that hasn't been pointed out yet: CSS isn't all about HTML. CSS is in theory capable of giving presentation attributes to any kind of data model that consists of nodes (elements) arranged as a tree, with attributes associated with these nodes. You can style your arbitrary XML with it, for example. All you need is a way to connect the CSS to the tree. For XML, this happens through the xml-stylesheet PI. Just put this at the top of an XML file: <?xml-stylesheet href="css source" type="text/css"?> Mozilla, among others, will then display the results of styling the XML. There's just one rule predefined: every element has display:inline. If your custom XML contains a table-like structure, you can use the table-* display values to instruct the UA to display that stuff as a table.
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