Geoff Hoffman wrote: > Is it that the browsers don't support what the CSS is supposed to do > yet?
Internet Explorer doesn't support CSS table at all up to and including IE7. That is the only reason CSS table can't be used. IE8 will render CSS tables ok. > Or am I incorrect in thinking that display:table; display:table-row; > and display:table-cell; etc., are not supposed to help me layout > pages... CSS table _is_ supposed to help you layout pages. No other reasons for CSS table to be in the spec., as HTML tables are supposed to take take care of tabular data now and in the future. > Or am I just a fool for trying? Until all IE7 and older have been replaced as surfing-tools ... yes :-) We can't sell clients something that doesn't work at all for 70% of end-users, so if clients really, really, want table layouts - give them HTML table layouts. Not that I think it is difficult to replicate _most_ HTML table layouts with CSS, but CSS table is not supported well enough to bother with in regular production - yet. Regular float-based layouts still work best as table-replacements in _most_ cases. The only thing CSS table has going for it at the moment, is that it is easy to turn one into something else, if necessary, without touching the source-code. The same can be done with an HTML table since nowadays they're just a set of CSS defaults in browsers anyway, but IE7 and older still won't play ball. For now all we can do is to play around with various solutions to IE/win' lack of support for CSS table... <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/moa_11g.html> ...in playgrounds well away from regular clients. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
