[thelist] Advanced Table Design using only Divs and CSS.

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at iop.org
Tue Aug 10 07:54:14 CDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 13:34, John.Brooking at sappi.com wrote:
> > I also declare all fonts with EM's, this makes it so the 
> > text almost always take up the same relative space in the 
> > div, that is, a line that is 12 words long will stay 12 
> > words long however I resize the text, which I think is good 
> > since about 12 words seem to be a desired length.

> This sounds very interesting. Do you have it online anywhere we could
> look at it?

John,

It's called Elastic Design, and it's about declaring the dimensions of
your layout, but not necessarily your fonts, in ems.

www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/

Regards,

Tim
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