[thelist] CSS vs tables

[Jay Greenspan]

> On 09:43 AM 3/12/2002, Andrew Shiel said to me:
>> I have read and understand all the arguments in favour of style sheets
>> over tables for layout. I've been trying to string together a style
>> sheet
>> that will provide a "typical" tabled layout, with a title/navigation
>> bar
>> across the top, a side menu on the left, and a main area where text
>> goes.
>> Possibly a box of some kind to the right and a footer.
>>
>> I'm getting nowhere. Can someone show me an example of something like
>> this?
>
> Eric Costello has the best collection of CSS layout templates:
>
> <http://www.glish.com/css/>

Eric also did an article for Apple's Internet Developer site on this
very topic:

http://developer.apple.com/internet/css/introcsslayout.html

In the article he re-codes the Internet Devloper site's home page to use
CSS instead of tables.


-j