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Posted by Cerebral Believer on 08/15/06 11:15
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> Cerebral Believer wrote:
>
>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:8NODg.245157$mF2.26138@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>> Cerebral Believer wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have chosen to make a basic template for a website I am creating,
>>>> using a seriries of tables to control the layout of the page. <snip>
>>>
>>> Looks like you want a three column with footer. Look, no tables, and
>>> no spacers necessary:
>>> http://benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/3-column-with-footer.html
>>
>> Beauregard,
>>
>> I like the way the page you referenced works. I am a relative
>> beginner in this, and am wondering how I can achieve exactly the same
>> effects using CSS to format pages, rather than tables - if that makes
>> any sense. I mean, if I have several objects on a page each holding
>> text/images etc, and someone resizes text in their browser, or
>> resizes their browser window, how can I form my HTML & CSS to ensure
>> that the objects resize and move in proportion and relatively?
>
> Put your images/text in paragraphs. You do not need table cells to
> display images and text.
>
> <p>This is some text.</p>
> <p>Here is an image. <img src="..." ...></p>
>
>> Using a table, this is fairly easy as long as the formatting isn't
>> complicated, but then using <div> & CSS I assume, it all seems a lot
>> more difficult, especially if yo uhave to code for several browsers
>> because on incosistent interpretation of the code.
>
> It is not more difficult (I think it is much *less* difficult), it is
> just ... different.
>
> S'far as I know, all modern browsers interpret basic CSS correctly. Note
> that IE is not a modern browser, marches to its own drum, but if you
> don't use really fancy stuff, it will work fine.
>
> Look at this site of mine. Lots of text, a number of images, and the
> only tables on the whole site contain .. what they were designed for ..
> tabular data.
> http://countryrode.com/
Yes, this is a page that works well aslo, I'll have to study the code and
see how you formed it, that is unless you can point me to any good guides
for using CSS to format web pages.
Regards,
C.B.
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