[thelist] CSS: layout question

[Kid Stevens]

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I do that entirely with CSS. View
<http://celtic-wisdom.alternative-beauty.com>Celtic Wisdom only 2
pages use tables and no page is left without mostly CSS control.  The
only reason for the table is to produce the book's looks and allow
infinite downward expansion.

If you want the page to really look like your design use absolute to
your heart's content. The average user is improving and on a PC even
runs his 14 monitor at 800*600 which easily can have pages
accommodated for it.

At 3:15 PM -0800 11/20/02, Chris W. Parker wrote:
>hi.
>
>although i have been to all the common sites with css layouts (glish,
>bluerobot, etc.) i have not found exactly what i'm looking. and maybe
>it's possible that this cannot be done with CCS1(not sure if that is the
>correct reference).
>
>here is what i want to do with css that is easily achievable with
>tables. i will write the table out so that you can what i'm trying to
>do. (the nested tables are necessary for the look i'm trying to get.)
>
><table width="100%">
>  <tr>
>   <td colspan="2">header</td>
>  </tr>
>  <tr>
>   <td width="25%">
>    <table width="100%">
>     <tr>
>      <td>menu</td>
>     </tr>
>    </table>
>   </td>
>   <td width="75%">
>    <table width="100%">
>     <tr>
>      <td>content</td>
>     </tr>
>    </table>
>   </td>
>  </tr>
></table>
>
>what i've got as far as css goes is this...
>
>#header {
>	margin: 2px;
>	padding: 10px;
>	border: 5px solid black;
>	background: #fff;
>	height: 50px;
>	width: 99.725%;
>	}
>
>#nav {
>	position: absolute;
>	left: 10px;
>	margin: 2px;
>	padding: 10px;
>	border: 5px solid black;
>	background: #fff;
>	width: 111px;
>	width: 23%;
>	}
>
>#content_container {
>	position: absolute;
>	left: 25%;
>	top: 102px;
>	padding: 10px;
>	border: 5px solid black;
>	background: #fff;
>	}
>
>i do not want to use position: absolute; as it requires me to specify
>position regardless of where other parts on the screen are. (thus the
>term absolute.) but i tried using relative (along with changing some
>other settings which i'm not sure of right now) but it is even worse.
>
>
>any got the solution?
>
>chris.

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