Velda wrote:
MilesTogoe wrote:
so I'm thinking of experimenting with the new css display tables -
more like the control of the old tables and gets away from messy
floats, clears.
and back to all the old issues of using tables to control display.
CSS does make tables neater for tabular data though.
Well I was still stuck with the white space junk so I quickly tried out
using the display tables. Success. The old way of tables was messy,
cumbersome, slower, .... but it did work as expected - I don't want to
restart old flame wars but I'm really tired of lots of tweaking, hacks,
cross browser problems and just lots of non productive time with css
layouts. I'll trade some cumbersome for less fragility.
After reading these articles:
http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/are_css_tables_ready_for_prime_time/
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/csswrong1/
http://www.thecssninja.com/xhtml/why-display-table-shouldnt-be-frowned-upon
I tried out a layout with even nested css display stuff - it seems to
work really nicely, even in Konqueror (although I need web-kit for
rounded corners). With display-block and display-inline it's actually
quite simpler than the old nested table mess though I'm not quite sure
yet with the use of blocks vs nested table cells.
So far I'm really sold on CSS2 stuff - not sure if I'll run into other
issues yet. But as of now, no white space issue, pretty simple spacing,
even vertical centered spacing, and plus simple rounded corners (none of
that complex image, sliding doors ... baloney)
I've read that IE8 apparently supports the CSS display stuff so unless
you have to support IE 6,7 I suggest trying out the CSS2 stuff.
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