Posted by Ed Mulroy on 06/09/06 14:01

> Think about this, why are your links in a table at all? They are just a
> list right?

What is it that am I missing here?

The concept is for a left columnar menu consisting of buttons. That menu is
currently implemented as a table. In response to your comment I have tried
doing it with a list but without success.

An <li> isn't really a block element. I can't seem to specify margin 0 on
top and left and margin 1 on the right and bottom with a specified color to
get the button appearance that I wanted.

The current design uses a <td> which defines a cell to which I provide these
things.

text-align: left;
padding-left: 0.5ex
vertical-align: middle;
background: #E8E8FF;
border: solid 0 #000080;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-right-width: 1px;

Which comes out something like this (may not present exactly as intended
depending upon the font setting in your news reader):

::Menu Item A |
-------------------'
::Menu Item B |
-------------------'
::Menu Item C |
-------------------'

.. Ed

> Jonathan N. Little wrote in message
> news:46bee$44883bbe$40cba7bf$11824@NAXS.COM...
> ...
> Following are not snide remarks but to encourage you to think in a
> different direction...
>
> Think about this, why are your links in a table at all? They are just a
> list right? ...
> You need to shake off the shackles of the table and compose the page
> semantically then style to make it appear as you wish. ...

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