Erik Harris wrote: >> Is there a particular reason your looking to do it without tables? > > I've had a couple people ask me this question in private (I got basically > the same type of question from a few people who feel that tables are > totally appropriate for a calendar). > > My reason for wanting to do this in CSS instead of with a table is that I'm > thinking of a list of upcoming events as a dataset, and the traditional > month-calendar table as one possible method of presenting that data. For > example, a community calendar could say: > > Thursday, August 6: Newsletter published > Saturday, August 15: community yard sale > Saturday, August 22: community picnic > (and so on) > > It's not inherently a table, but if you choose to display it in the typical > calendar format, it's displayed that way. I was thinking of possible > implementing a style-switcher, allowing people to view either the > table-style calendar or a list of dates (especially since the > month-calendar will probably be sparsely populated, where as a five-line > list might give all of the information for two months, maybe making it > better for printing). > > This is WELL beyond anything I've done with CSS in the past, and it may not > even be possible, but I thought I'd ask anyhow. If it can't be done, I'll > just go ahead with the typical tabular calendar. Usually, when I come up > with a design for a web page, I end out with a big idea and then have to > scale it back due to CSS/HTML limitations, browser implementation issues, > or limitations in my skill level. This will probably be no different. :-)
I see that the ability to do things as a list might be very interesting, letting you do things like nest a list of seven days inside a week, a list of weeks inside a month, and so on. Just a simple adaptation of some of the many scripts and CSS that make things like drop down navigation lists work! Then you could drill your way down to a particular event ... -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
