Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 05/22/06 18:24

Travis Newbury wrote:

> Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to make a website with a fixed table width centred in the
>>> page.
>> Don't. Get with the 21st century and do it right. Download yourself
>> a CSS 3 columen template and use that instead of abusing tables
>> (try glish or bluerobot)

Here's a fairly good one from bluerobot, though it uses pixel
dimensions, Verdana, and fixed font sizes.
http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout3.html

Glish is now a bit long in the tooth.

> This is assuming you have several years to wait for everyone to get a
> browser that CSS actually works correclty in....

You should upgrade from Netscape 3... :-)

This one works well in just about any browser.
http://benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/csstemplates/3-column.html

> Otherwise, just use tables because it works....

Tables work fine for (um, have I heard this before?) tabular data.

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-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

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