[thelist] forms and css

[Dan Williams]

I would personally advise you to use tables. After all, what you have
described is essentially tabular data, and so there is semantic value
for it (unlike constructing whole layouts with tables, which I hate).

The thing you have to remember is not that "tables are bad", but rather,
"it is bad to use tables for design only". The humble table is not going
anywhere, and I don't see the point of struggling to recreate the wheel
:)



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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Bill Hughey
Sent: 08 September 2003 22:46
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Subject: [thelist] forms and css


In reply to a question about forms and css I got several replies that
showed how you would layout something like

<div> <label/>  <input/> <span/> <input/> <span/> >/div>

This involved 'floating' the first label to the left and specifying its
width.  This made the rest line up nicely, however, my more difficult
forms are of the form below.

header
input label input label
input label input label
    .....
input label input label


Css seems to have limited ablility to specify horzontal and vertical
positioning such as tables gives you, without going the route of laying
everything out as absolute positioned divs.

Any help would be appreciated.  Even if it is just a suggestion to stick
with tables.
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