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Simone Gianni updated LABS-207:
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It is still not possible to emulate what is done with tables using pure CSS.
The problem is that table cells tend to fill the available space, while
floating divs tend to use minimal space. In current table-based forms, if I
place a fixed size (like zipcode) field on the side of a full size (like
address) field, cells will correctly use the minimum space for the fixed size
field and filol all the rest with space for the full size one. On the opposite,
using divs and CSS this is not possible, unless display:table(-row|-cell) is
used, which is currently supported only in IE8, making it a solution for the
future but not right now.
There are some CSS+Javascript framework that manages to emulate the "fill as
much as possible" behaviour using floating divs, like ElastiCSS, and they are
compatible back to IE6, but are an intermediate solution.
So, I'll proceed with extracting the HTML generation part in a separate
replaceable class, but forms will now stay on the table based system, while the
non-table based implementation will not honor the side-by-side relations.
Implementations based on display:table or css+javascript framework will be a
viable options once there is an easy way to replace the generated HTML.
> [beansview] Make showbean table-less
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> Key: LABS-207
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LABS-207
> Project: Labs
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Magma
> Affects Versions: Current
> Reporter: Simone Gianni
> Assignee: Simone Gianni
> Fix For: Current
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> Original Estimate: 0h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> ShowBean, and inherently forms, currently produce layout tables. These are
> quite well done, and does not create problems with WAI/WCAG validations, but
> it would be better to find another approach, eventually based on some
> CSS/JavaScript client layout framework.
> Eventually, this could be an additional package.
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