Posted by Andy Dingley on 09/25/06 21:21

Toby Inkster wrote:

> Andy Dingley wrote:
>
> > This is table-style behaviour and isn't supported by the HTML / CSS
> > flow model.
>
> It is -- it's just not supported by Internet Explorer.

Sorry - I worded that poorly.

IE and FF both support "CSS table style" behaviour, although it's (not
entirely unreasonably) only reliably available for the <table> element.
IE doesn't support the CSS display property setting display: table-*;
on other elements.

What I should have said is that you're reduced to using tables (and
arguably mis-using them) because what you really need here is
"newspaper column" layout and HTML / CSS doesn't support that at all.
Although XSL:FO can do it (for many output formats).

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