Mike Foskett wrote:
Sorry Andy,
I'll have to agree to disagree.
Personally speaking, the use of a table to layout tabular input is as valid as using a table to layout tabular output.
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Kornel Lesinski wrote:
I think that inputs in a table are ok.
This is tabular data, although not output, but input, but the structure certainly is tabular.
It seems to me that there is a lot of post rationalisation and spurious justification going on here. If you want to use tables to lay out your forms (or anything else for that matter) then go for it. It just seems odd to try and justify it in this manner.
I doubt very much if tables were created as a handy way of displaying forms even if we can post rationalise it now. I mean, if we're splitting hairs and getting semantic, isn't all information on a website really just data? So why can't present it all using tables?
Part of the point of using CSS for layout is it gives us the ability to separate the content from the presentation. Slapping a form into table cells doesn't allow this. It makes it much harder for instance to restyle the form so the labels appear above, rather than next to the form inputs.
It's like my girlfriend not wanting to order chips because they are fattening and then eating half on mine instead. The intention is good, but it doesn't make the calories go away :-)
Andy Budd
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