Posted by Chaddy2222 on 09/04/06 01:11

Ted wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started playing with html pages with no tables. My goal is a
> completely
> tableless layout. I've read on some pages on how to do this, but I'm having
> trouble with a couple of things.
>
> 1. I want the page to be a width of 800
Why! Just set it at 100% and leave the bloody thing alone, you can't
know the default browser window size.

and centered on the page. I've
> done
> this by wrapping everything in a div and setting align = "center", but
> that seems
> to center everything in the sub divs as well.
>
> 2. I want to have two divs laid out side by side, like a portal. I've
> tried the float: left;
> in a different css tag, but I can't seem to get these two divs to lay
> out side by side.
>
> The gist of the look and feel I want is like msn.com. I've looked at their
> source and
> css file and can't seem to figure out what they do to make it work.
>
If you want stuff to line up *perfectly*, then you will have a hard
time doing so, you will need to use Tables and probly nested ones at
that.

> I put up some sample code here:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/ted_jones5791113/index.html
>
> geocities puts it's own stuff in it. Here is the source of my html and css.
You really should get yourself a decent / better Free Host, or pay a
few $'s.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

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