On 12/15/05, Bob Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In reality I have evidently hit upon a problem with "pure" CSS. The > fact that it may not be a problem for those who do not have clients > asking for a certian site design is irrelavent. I do and am seeking a > way to satisfy them and do "pure" (in the spirit of this group) CSS > at the same time.
Well, I showed you the equal height columns technique. I think I can safely say it is the only method for liquid columns with equal height. If you want fixed width, I might have another solution. It is, like I said, a holy grail of making equal height columns work where we can't rely on display:table. You claimed it was rife with hacks and that was that. Well, the hacks are to deal with poor implementations in old browsers. Browsers, not mistakes in CSS. There is no problem with "pure" CSS. And all the browsers being hacked are dead browsers, in which case using these hacks doesn't mean that the techniques will suddenly fail later on. The question is whether you prefer to hack the dead browsers or hack the specs. I would rather deploy these ugly hacks for crappy browsers than misuse an html element. That's my choice. Hacks don't hinder accessibility or semantics. They don't bloat markup, and they are surprisingly easy to maintain (just ask any list member). But like you said, I've never had a client ask for something like that. In 5 years when display:table cell has widespread support, you can start using it to give pure CSS equal height columns without table hacking. And since we'll still be supporting version 5 browsers and netscape and everything else we cater to (bang head on keyboard here), I'm sure someone will tell us that there is a problem with pure CSS and they just can't stop using tables yet. > Just because I've stated that if a solution (P7 javascript not > withstanding) does not exist that does not involve a table, you non- > table people should at least admit it. No can do Bob. I showed you the solution. End of story: solution, choices made, move on :) -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
