Doug, It is a long and winding road from table to div based layout, but stick with it! Once you get the hand of div positioning and using css to drive the layout, development will be easier and faster. "Designing with Web Standards" by Jeffery Zeldman and "Professional CSS : cascading style sheets for Web design" by Christopher Schmitt (and friends) helped me to learn div based layouts.
Also check out the articles on A List Apart, if you don't already. Specifically http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail/ and http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ Div layouts are harder to work with as each div is independent, as opposed to dependent table cells. Specifying the width of each div and using padding to give it room to breath should eliminate any boundary issues you may have. Let me know if you have any more questions. I'll be happy to help! On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:47 PM, djolley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the input, Andy. Unfortunately, I have to report that it > didn't work for me. You can see my results at: > > http://www.4test.net/test/ragged_bottom_test.html > > I put a border around the footer so that it can be seen. I was > interpreting your post to mean (and hoping :) ) that the addition of > the footer div with a 'clear: both' attribute would cause the left- > hand menu-bar column to be extended downward so that its bottom would > be touching the top of the footer div just like the right-hand content > column thereby eliminating the ragged bottom. As you can see, that > didn't happen. > > In playing with it, I also note that the div-based layout is much more > difficult to work with than a table-based layout because the > boundaries of a div element are not nearly as rigid as the boundaries > of a table cell. By that I mean that it seems that it's much easier > for content contained within a div element to spill outside that > element than it is for content to spill outside of a td element. > Thus, the designer has to be much more careful. > > However, despite the fact that life is just easier for me using table- > based layouts, I know that the world is moving towards div-based > layouts and there are techniques being developed that can only be > employed using a div-based layout. So, I really have to get with it > although it seems to be complicating my life. > > Thanks again for the input. > > ... doug > > > -- Thanks, Andy Baughman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" at Google groups. To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
