Douglas Fraser wrote: > I have a set of the links the client wants displayed in a grid > format. Using a table is the obvious solution, even if it's not "the > correct thing to do" presentation wise. The issue is that they want > the text of the links to turn bold as the mouse hovers over them. > Ok, that's all fine, but the problem is the table cell gets resized > width-wise and so the other columns shift around. That looks bad.... > > Browsers don't do dynamic padding / margins, table cells can't take a > max-width.... Using a table does not look like the right thing to > do. I can make this grid using all divs - using all divs solves the > problem of things shifting around - and positioning them nicely with > PHP based logic (using the less supported display: properties is not > an option (IE...)) but the problem is the width of the text / # of > characters in a link is all different, so I can not easily make the > columns to be spaced out nicely like when a table is used. > > I could write some javascript to get the browser to calculate the > ultimate max width of a column and thus shift things around on page > load to space out columns in a regular fashion, but if there is an > easier way... I have not tried table-layout:fixed yet, but I > suspect that won't help as the client would like no forced breaks in > the text (e.g. this-is-a-really-long-link not get broken in the > middle due to a fixed width column). And the number of columns may > differ from page to page... And would table-layout prevent the > cell/table from getting redrawn / expanded anyways? >
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