At to whether a list of thumbs is truly tabular ... I think not. It will visually appear such but it's not a grid -- for which tables should be used, as a matrix.
Tables have rows and columns at which cells intersect as combined related values; a contiguous list of thumbs and associated captions have no common properties other than being a picture and text and *will make sense in isolation*. But you're not going to like what I've discovered as a result of experimenting with tables ... The bloody things don't inherit relative (em- and percentage-based) font and line-size attributes in IE 5/5.1, which means more bloody CSS and/or markup to compensate for that cock-up. Don't you just love being a standards-compliant developer :o( So as I see it, it's a question of the lesser of two evils: wrap each image and associated caption in another container and bulk the markup or use semantically incorrect cells and bulk up the CSS to cope with IE's shortcomings. Funnily enough, the client previewed the near-finished site update yesterday and was delighted ... then asked if I could centre the thumbs ... I shall endeavour to persevere :o) There is always a resolution Mike Pepper Accessible Web Developer (with attitude) http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com http://www.gawds.org This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or body to whom they are addressed. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by Norton AntiVirus for the presence of computer viruses. If this message is received in error, please accept our apologies. ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
