Webmaster wrote:
"Keep in mind that not many people here will want to help you sort
out a design that uses tables for layout."
Are we not being a bit classist?
Maybe ever so slightly, but I guess that comes naturally when one tries
to use standards as base for web design.
Although my current site rebuild is CSS heavy I have (after much
struggling with a div-based header/3-column/footer layout that is
accessible, cross-browser/-platform friendly, CSS switch-less and
'hack' free) reverted to a table for this purpose.
You may have good reasons for using tables for layout, but what you've
described can be achieved by using the methods found here:
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/>
I've used (and misused) these methods with a mix of other
standard-related methods for quite a while (well before that article was
written), and have found them to work quite well across browser-land.
Of course: creating CSS-layouts without some hacks and/or workarounds
for IE/win is pretty difficult - I've never managed that. However,
'tables for layout' is in itself just one big hack, so I don't have a
problem with a few dozen IE-hacks in my 'conditional commented' stylesheets.
Better days ahead, they say...
<http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/molly_1_06.html>
...example with typical misuse of negative margins and IE-hacks.
regards
Georg
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