On Aug 16, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Janelle Clemens wrote:
My recent headache is trying to create a column/row of cells, like
what
tables used to be used for, but with the display properties table,
table-row, table-column, table-cell.
Use a table.
Tables are valid HTML. You style them with CSS. When you have tabular
data, using anything else is unsemantic and wrong. If you have rows
and columns, then you have tabular data. Use a table.
The table tag is not banned for use in XHTML+CSS sites. Using tables
to lay your page out is a bad idea, but anything other than tables
for tabular data is a worse idea. Don't throw the baby out with the
bathwater.
Oh, and regarding hacks for IE: remember that IE7 is coming out very
soon, and anything that relies on a parsing bug may behave
unpredictably. Using "* html" will likely mean that you will apply
your hack to IE7 before you even see how it does without the hack.
Your best (only?) bet is the conditional comment option.
Remember: "Only hack the dead."
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