Re: [css-d] Replicating tables and onion skinning gone crazy

2005-11-03 Thread Steve Clay 
Thursday, November 3, 2005, 1:19:18 AM, Graham Reeds wrote:
 css and use background images for it.  However that would mean 8
 background divs for each element that require the border effect - and 

There are tons [1] of custom border techniques out there.  I made one based
on 4 DIVs and 2 images [2].  If you're willing to let Javascript help with
the lifting you don't need any additional markup [3].

[1] http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=RoundedCorners
[2] http://wd.mrclay.org/custom_bordered_boxes/
[3] 
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200505/transparent_custom_corners_and_borders/

Steve
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[css-d] Replicating tables and onion skinning gone crazy

2005-11-02 Thread Graham Reeds 
When does using CSS become a more difficult way of replicating tables?

The site I am overhauling use a fancy 'piping' graphic around most on 
screen items.  I could simply create nicer tables than the original code 
which used proprietry attributes, I could position the images explicitly 
using inline styles or I could remove the images from the HTML into the 
css and use background images for it.  However that would mean 8 
background divs for each element that require the border effect - and 
there are 5 on this screen, one of which has a specialised corner (that 
contains the page type).

I know what I have to do, but I am not happy about any of the three 
methods above.  Is there any ideas that I might of missed?

More annoying is that to replicate the layout I will have to use nested 
divs.  I guess the savings on size will be worth it - the page is less 
than a fifth of the original page currently and I estimate it will be 
half the size of the original table happy design.

Also there is some data on screen that is essentially a table.  It has 3 
columns and is tabulating some data, but is not a table in a regular 
sense (simply a rank, a link and a yes/no result).   Should I use a 
table for this or a div-span-span-span layout?

G.

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