Bill,
What you want to do is easy. First, stop using tables to lay out your
text. You're correct about how to use floats, but you can't use them with
tables. I'd try something like this:
Table of Contents
...
> This is a question that might be easy to answer if you
> provided a sample HTML page. Why don't you mark up
> what you're talking about and post that? Most of the
> time when I do that I answer my own question in the
> process of preparing the test page.
Actually I can give an existing exampl
At 07:37 PM 7/18/2005, Bill Hely wrote:
Table criticisms aside, is it possible to "float" a short narrow
table into the top-right corner of a longer wider table, such
that short&narrow looks like a column of long&wide?
My aim is to have the text in long&wide flow around the bottom of
short&narro
Christian Heilmann wrote:
Short Short
Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long
Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long
Long Long Long
and p.shorttext{ float:left;width:8em;}
Tables for non-tabular data is hard enough to take in for
> >
> >Short Short
> >Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long
> >Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long
> > Long Long Long
> >
> >
> >and p.shorttext{ float:left;width:8em;}
> >
> >Tables for non-tabular data is hard enough to take in fo
Christian Heilmann wrote:
what is wrong with
Short Short
Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long
Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long
Long Long Long
and p.shorttext{ float:left;width:8em;}
Tables for non-tabular data is hard
> Table criticisms aside, is it possible to "float" a short narrow
> table into the top-right corner of a longer wider table, such
> that short&narrow looks like a column of long&wide?
>
> My aim is to have the text in long&wide flow around the bottom of
> short&narrow when the latter finishes.
w
Bill Hely wrote:
Table criticisms aside, is it possible to “float” a short narrow
table into the top-right corner of a longer wider table, such
that short&narrow looks like a column of long&wide?
seems to me you would use a {vertical-align:top;horizontal-align:right}
rather that a float. i do
