Keith Kaiser wrote: > Like many I'm trying to learn CSS so I can replace all use of tables > with it.
Don't take that too far, as the often misused and/or misunderstood HTML table is the only sensible option at times. > The following is what I want the final product to look like but > instead of using tables I want to use CSS. > http://bsaroundtable.org/wrapxample.html > > I would like to put text at places other than 0,90,180 and 270 > degrees around an object too, say at 45 degrees etc. Absolute positioning and float manipulation will come handy. Simple A:P example... <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_chaos_25.html> ...and basic float manipulation... <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_demo_float_03.html> You can basically position any element anywhere out of any container, and the only factor you have to take into account is the effect of font resizing in browsers and available size (width) in browser windows - none of which are known or controllable. > Maybe this is one of those layouts that CSS just can't do very well, > but if that is so please tell me that too. CSS can, but IE can't. We have CSS table... <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html> ...which works just fine for layout in all browsers but IE7 and older. > I've scoured the Internet for a solution but all the example put the > image on the right border or the left border or the top... you get > the idea. I want the image to be in the center and all the text > (links) to be like you see. A perfect job for CSS table, but since IE blocks that option you're left with regular "in-flow", "A:P" and "floats". Think I'd use cross-over A:P positioning for something like that - positioning the left-side links from the right side of the image and the other way round for the right-side links. One container the size of the image, and links positioned out of it in all directions. That'll prevent links overlapping the image with font resizing. More important than the layout is your "new window pop-ups", as they are easily caught by pop-up blockers and thrown out - they are at my end. However, blocked pop-ups is not a CSS problem. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
