Thanks for the insight and pointers, David. I'll definitely check out your project.
Rick -----Original Message----- From: David Livingston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 12:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Can CSS and Layers Take the Place of Tables for Displaying Dynamic Data? One of the things I always hear developers talking about is separating the layout/design/presentation from the data/code. CSS is really great way to do that. All you have to do is present very simple html code and CSS can do the rest. Here is a project that I am developing right now that we did that on: http://theelearningcenter.com If you right click and view source it is just straight content no layout code at all (for the most part). The CSS takes care of the rest. This actually allowed us to skin the site for subdomains that came along and not have to change any of the cfcode: http://lamaru.theelearningcenter.com/. You'll notice that the html never changes, just the CSS. I know that example isn't very much of a creative change so go check out http://csszengarden.com. That is where I got the inspiration from. They use the exact same html and only change the CSS. This one is my favorite http://csszengarden.com/? cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/cssocean/zenocean.css . Watch the diver on the right as you scroll down the page. Also you can put tables inside of divs and still remain very flexible. I'll have to admit it's not as easy as tables to support in all browsers, but once you learn the tricks it gets easier. Plus I don't even worry about it any more I just call up my CSS designer and tell him to figure it out. ;) Dave On Sep 9, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > Hi, all... > > I've always used tables to display my data from queries. > > Now, I've begun to be interested more in using CSS and Layers. > > The first question I have is how would one display data from queries > if not by using the top row of a table as the column headers and then > looping through the query, displaying the data for each query row in > each table row? > > That approach makes perfect sense to me, but I don't know enough > about CSS and Layers to know if you have to (or if it's preferable) to > use a table for data display even when using CSS and Layers? > > Also..a table will expand vertically to accomodate more data...will > a div? > > Anyone have any input to offer on the approach to presentation? > > If the answer to these questions and the overall approach is positive > to using CSS and Layers for display, then I'll continue to study the > tutorials, > etc., that I find to learn CSS and Layers... > > Rick > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:217799 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
