I haven't done a new table-based layout in years. That said, we have two key pages that are truly "wire-frame" in nature, by that I mean that the individual cells of content vary substantially in size at each rendering (based on database contents), and these variances in size need to adjust the layout across the "row" and up/down the column.
I don't know any way with CSS, absent a pile of JS, that changes in the height of the contents of a block in column one can force, across all browsers (or even just IE for that matter), a corresponding change in the height of a block (div, for ex) that is two columns to the right. This interdependence, when it is required by the application, keeps these pages table-based. It's the dynamic, content-driven, interdependent resizing that is the essense of a table (and what makes them so awkward for designs that don't need that interdependence. If someone knows of a solution to achieve the wire-frame nature of a table without the table, I would love to learn about it. The tables really are a pain. Alan K. Gay www.buymetrics.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 6:51 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed Or, do table-based layouts still have a place on the web? There will definitly be a lot of table-based layouts for many times to come. Not everyone has the knowledge nor is obligated to use CSS-based layouts. But from a web professional standpoint, do you think table-based layouts still need to be used for some particular layouts? In other words, can pure CSS layouts do everything a table-based layout can do? I ask this becouse I still see many famous and really relevant websites with a dirty table-based soup layout. I wonder wether was lazy, or if he didn't know that he could do it with divs and CSS or if he knew that this kind of layout was viable to do with CSS. Well, just a thought :) Marcelo. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
