Posted by Todd Cary on 07/09/07 20:54

cwdjrxyz wrote:
> On Jul 9, 11:24 am, Todd Cary <t...@aristesoftware.com> wrote:
>> Is there a reference on creating a "grid" with <DIV> tags (no
>> <TABLE>)? Example:http://www.toddcary.com/friends/070707_amber_michael/
>>
>> Many thanks...
>
> Yes you can create a grid with only css division tags, but I am not
> for sure you will want to do it except in special cases. My perpetual
> calendar at http://www.cwdjr.net/calendar2/perpetual_calendar.php is a
> grid of a whole year of dates and months and has to be figured out for
> each year. You first enter the year of interest. When the server
> receives this, the year calendar is calculated using php scripts, and
> this includes calculation of the css for positioning in a calendar
> grid. Also US legal holidays are calculated and red is used for these
> dates. This is a 4 dimensional problem, with a nest of 4 loops used
> in the main calculations. For anything of much complication, I think
> you will agree that you would not want to write all of the divisions
> by hand, even for a single year, if you look at all of the divisions
> downloaded to the page after the calendar is calculated.
>

That display of the images was created by Adobe's Lightroom. I
like the way the grayed margins are placed around the images. My
current display done using a Borland Delphi program I wrote is
Plain Jane (www.toddcary.com/rotary/). In this case I used
tables, however when I saw what Adobe accomplished with
divisions, it got me curious about using them that way. Using
divisions, I got this far:
http://www.toddcary.com/test/div_grid/lession_07.html

With this page, can the background color of the "blank" image
have a color? http://www.toddcary.com/test/div_grid/lession_08.html

Thanks...

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