Thanks for that link Ernie, After reading through I realize two things. First, that there are limits to using it similar to table cells, because it only applies to inline elements. Second, that to get it to behave like table cells, requires some amount of CSS hacks. While I do believe that tables should be used for tabular data, or very minimal layout aspects. At the point I am having to employ CSS hacks to avoid using a table (or using indeterminant top/bottom padding, my preference is to use a table. Afterall, hacks are less-likely to be future proof than a basic table construct (or even falling back on top/bottom paddings to achieve a similar result). ...Rob ____________________________________ Rob Emenecker @ Hairy Dog Digital www.hairydogdigital.com
_____ From: Ernie Finlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 12:16 PM To: Rob Emenecker; 'CSS Discussion' Subject: RE: [css-d] vertical-align property examples/info Hi Bob,have a look at http://www.ibloomstudios.com/articles/vertical-align_misuse/ Ernie :) _____ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:16:36 -0500 > Subject: [css-d] vertical-align property examples/info > > Hi all, > > Can anyone point me to good sources of info and simply examples for uses of > the "vertical-align" property other than TD elements? > > I've looked at the CCS 2.1 spec at > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-vertical-align, but don't > quite understand what is considered a " inline-level element" for applying > vertical-align properties. > > So, I still end up falling back on table constructs in certain cases where I > am trying to apply a vertical-align. This usually happens in forms, and I'm > trying to get away from using tables for "drop back and punt" layout > control. > > Best, > Rob > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ _____ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. Get it now! <http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008 > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
