Michael B Allen wrote:
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Michael Adams
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But the same code is much cleaner without the table
>
> Ahh, I knew that was coming.
And it was easy to predict that illogical and inconvenient (what's the
default rendering of <dl> and how do you kill it?) use of definition
list markup was coming.
> I've tried creating forms without tables
> but I could never get the data to line up into ... well ... a table.
It's virtually impossible, with CSS as currently implemented, to create
good tabular presentation for tabular data without using table markup in
HTML. In simple cases, you might be able to do with floats or
positioning and with _explicit_ widths (breaking automatic adjustability
you get for free with tables).
> And AFAICT your examples don't either. There's no arguing that it's
> cleaner not having form elements woven into a mess of td elements but
> anything else just doesn't give the desired effect.
Huh? What's the desired effect of the <label> markup and how do you get
it, and why can't you do _that_ in CSS? (I know the _functionality_ of
<label>, but it works for input fields.)
> So am I missing something here?
I dunno, but I'm missing what you see as problem with the approach you
described in your first message.
You could use <th> to distinguish the heading-like cells from data
cells, but then you have the problem of default rendering of <th>, which
might be unsuitable here - can you rely on CSS for overriding it? You
could also make "Account Information" a <caption> element, but styling
captions is a bit problematic.
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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