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Posted by al jones on 01/12/07 02:28
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:00:40 GMT, mbstevens wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:02:58 -0600, al jones wrote:
>
>> Okay, take a look at aljones.us/vad.htm which is based on your latest.
>>
>> For each image I will probably have three different h3 / p pairs (the date
>> and associated text). If it were to do what I'm trying to achieve, Your
>> line 'Meyer quote' and my line 'heading test' would both be to the right of
>> the (supposedly) associated image With the releated text immediately below
>> them.
>>
>> Enclosing the image within the p associates it, seemingly, with only that
>> paragraph and the following two paragraphhs fall beneath the image.
>>
>> If I'm not missing the obvious .... I *am* getting a royal headache.
>
> Forget clear and float. You have enough inter-associations of information
> to interpret it (*completely* correctly) as tabular data. Just do
> all styling of your tables in CSS, not in the old style markup.
>
> Whether you have multiple small tables or one big one depends on your
> semantic intent -- just try to associate information in rational ways and
> keep things as simple as possible.
>
> You could also collect associated information in container div-s.
>
> But depending of float and clear to provide the kinds of complex
> associations you appear to want is shooting yourself in the foot.
MB - While I could pull up DW and make tables out of it, *I* don't see this
as a tabular exercise, not something that is table oriented at all.
Thanks to John Hosking coming back into the thread, I now have what I was
looking for - done with html / css.
Now that I have this part of the solution - or at least the part I was
specifically lookking for - I guess I have my weekend cut out for me
redoing the diary entries (some a little, and some that I haven't done at
all *a lot*).
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