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Posted by mbstevens on 09/07/06 11:50
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:31:53 +1000, dorayme wrote:
>> > http://tinyurl.com/nnkn2
>> > Anyone have any preferences in all this re these layouts or
>> > alternative strategies?
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>> Along the same line,
>> I assume you've already seen:
>> http://www.realworldstyle.com/thumb_float.html ?
>> ........
> I am not quite sure about the <p>ing of the caption, is there a good
> argument for this in this particular case? In my url, in the div float
> template trials, I just text after the break. All is enclosed in the div.
Giving it its own block element enclosure makes it easier to style in
exactly the way you want. You might not need a lot of styling.
HTML needs an element for a caption. (Other than the <caption> element in
tables, of course, which we're clearly not talking about here.)
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>> Image-caption pairs are also tabular, if you choose to see them that
>> way...
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> Are you saying that there is an argument for putting the lot in a table
> because there is a tabular element? I can see this, yes and it is normally
> how I would have done it in the past, but as I say in the spiel at my url,
> the beauty of non table layout here is the wrap, the flexibility, not
> having to fix a set number of thumb/caption pairs to each row.
It just depends on how you are using the data and how you want it to be
interpreted.
> The list way makes for rather
> cleaner html
I'm not sure what you mean by 'cleaner' here.
> and seems to me closer to the semantic reality of a portrait
> gallery, an unordered list of items.
I think that part is right .
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