Hi,
Food for thought, thanks for pointing out the fundamental error.
C
On Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at 04:01 PM, Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Chris Kennon wrote:
The four programs across have started a chain of DIVS that seem more
cumbersome than table cells. How would one recommend recreating this
in semantically correct CSS, without the tangled mess of DIVS I've
birthed.
Chris, before anything else, you have a fundamental error in your CSS
that you should correct: you can't have both an id and a class with
the same name (i.e. #high2, .high2). This is going to cause conflicts
you can do without.
NB also that
div#high1, #high2 {...}
is not the same as
div#high1, div#high2 {...}
The first means 'apply this set of style rules to the div with id
high1, and any other element with id high2'. If you want the rule to
apply to div#high1 and div#high2, you have to list them in their
complete form as multiple selectors.
As far as the semantic of the markup goes, I'll repeat what's been
posted here often: if data looks like it should be presented in a
table, use a table. Just make sure you use table summary, <thead>,
etc, to ensure accessibility. There again, I don't have a problem with
your example divs, in principle. With the correct use of classes (or
indeed descendant selectors), you have the hooks in the markup to be
able to change your layout in ways from minor presentation tweaks to
page layout revisions, without touching the markup at all.
My 2c.
N
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