You just gotta be very careful if you're ever planning on building a site that is ADA compliant (which you should try to do anyways). Tweaked table layouts are very difficult for screen readers to handle so that's a big push for CSS websites. However, you still can build sites that are ADA compliant that still use tables.. you just have to use them correctly.
again, http://www.css-discuss.org is your friend Mike Rick Faircloth wrote: > That's what I'm wondering...I've got a system, while not flawless, > works very well...and I've learned a lot of "tricks" and "tweaks" to > working with tables. I work with tables primarily for design, but > apply styles to the tables and cells... > > Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 12:26 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Can CSS and Layers Take the Place of Tables for Displaying > Dynamic Data? > > > Don't try it... you have a perfectly good system, no reason to throw it > away. > > Matthew Small > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 12:20 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Can CSS and Layers Take the Place of Tables for Displaying Dynamic > Data? > > 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 > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:217823 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
