But <table> is used to tabulate data: using it to lay a page out is a hack and will cause more problems than it solves.
The ALA article that Doug points contains a CSS based hack for getting columns to display the same height: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ An example of some js (not tested by me!) would be: http://www.paulbellows.com/getsmart/balance_columns/ Leon On Jul 16, 3:05 am, djolley <[email protected]> wrote: > > You'll need to use some javascript to make your left > > column the same length as the right. > > My initial reaction was that having to resort to JS in order to > achieve the desired result was asking a lot especially since there is > an HTML element (i.e., <table>) that handles the problem quite nicely > out of the box. However, I still feel that I am painting myself into > a corner by continuing to structure layouts using tables. > Accordingly, I am prompted to ask the question: What would this JS > code look like? Can you point me to some sample code? Maybe it's > fairly simple and something with which I could live. > > Thanks. > > ... doug --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
