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Posted by Ed Mulroy on 06/08/06 17:46
> Try giving the table the following style:
>
> position: absolute;
I'll try that. Thanks a bunch!!
> Are you going to get rid of the table layout design?
Yes but only if there is a good reason to do it. I have read many things on
the evils of tables but they always sound more like religion except for when
they speak of presentation on platforms that I wish to not support (cell
phones, PDA's, blind browsers, screens of less than 800x600). Tables always
worked across browsers but CSS to give the equivalent effect has not always
worked.
Some of my pages do have lists instead of tables where they seem to make
sense, using <dl>, <ul> and the like. One one page I had to admit defeat
and encase a <dl> INSIDE a table's <tr><td></td></tr>. :-(
There is one page for which I am very motivated to use CSS instead of tables
but have never been able to get it to work across browsers. I would
appreciate it if you would take a peek at it and let me know if you think it
can be done as CSS based.
http://home.nc.rr.com/emulroy/sitemap.htm
the style sheet it uses is
http://home.nc.rr.com/emulroy/style4.css
I have been trying to arrange for my pages to present essentially the same
across NS 7, IE 5.1, IE 6.* and Firefox. Looking at my site statistics
right now shows IE at 80.0%, Firefox at 14%, Opera 1.9% and Mozilla 1.5% (I
take "Mozilla" to be Netscape). It might be worth only supporting only IE
and Firefox (Opera users tend to be techies and should be used to handling
compatibility problems).
> <http://www.jindrak.com/>. :(
I like the looks of that page. Very nice page.
However, the site is heavily PHP. I can't so much as blow my nose as far as
PHP is concerned :-( so may not be giving a valid opinion.
I've been told that PHP is the only way to reliably launch an email because
mailto: does not always work (for instance, with AOL users). My defense is
to use mailto: but also display the email address so that they can copy it
into their mail program. I wish there were some simple intro on the web for
how to use PSP.
.. Ed
.. ed at mulroy dot org
> Martin Jay wrote in message
> news:D+4MrCB$0DiEFwIz@spam-free.org.uk...
>
>> ...
>>The 'target' word in a link like that below generates an error:
>>(line 36) <a href="the_url" target="_blank">link description</a>
>>
>>What scheme is used under 4.01 strict to specify a link be opened
>>in a new window? (please, not javascript)
>
> AFAIK there is none. A while ago I put together some web pages
> for a friend who wanted some links to open in a new window, so
> for the pages with those sort of links on I used a Transitional
> doctype:
> <http://www.jindrak.com/>. :(
>
>>On line 18 I received a complaint about 'align'
>><table align="left" width="22%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2">
>>
>>However all attempts to remove the 'align' and handle it with CSS
>>results in the right hand table being moved down the page to past the
>>bottom of the left hand menu column.
>
> Try giving the table the following style:
>
> position: absolute;
>
> Are you going to get rid of the table layout design?
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