Hi, Le Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:33:33 +0900, Lyu Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> But from what I experimented with DIVs, I think there is nothing (or > very few) to gain in using DIVs instead of tables: for example, if we > want to use the layout I am currently working on, I think this can be > done with DIVs only by embedding them one into each other. In that > case we must use a certain DIVs hierarchy which will finally be > equivalent to using TABLEs... but maybe I'm wrong, because it's true > I'm not very easy with DIVs. On that point I'd like to have some help > if someone can. You can have a look at http://www.openweb.eu.org/articles/problemes_tableaux/ (in french). There's one argument that is not used in that page: the semantic meaning. Each HTML tag has a semantic meaning, which doesn't imply anything from a presentation point of view. For example <em> means «emphasize text», but doesn't say anything about *how* an emphasized text should be rendered. That's the job of the CSS (with of course a default behaviour if no CSS is present, or if the CSS doesn't specify anything for em). With <div>, it's the same thing. From a semantic point of view, you only say: «that's an element of my page», and in the HTML code, you don't say anything about how that element should be rendered (and particularly its position on the page) : all that is defined in the CSS. So, using multiple CSS, you can provide totally different presentations for the same HTML code (I'm sure you know the http://www.csszengarden.com website). From a semantic point of view <table> must be used to show tabular informations. By using <table> to make the layout of your webpage, you break the content/presentation separation scheme, and you do not respect the semantic meaning of <table>. Does that make sense ? Sincerly, Thomas -- PETAZZONI Thomas - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://{thomas,sos,kos}.enix.org - Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://{agenda,livret}dulibre.org - http://www.toulibre.org Fingerprint : 0BE1 4CF3 CEA4 AC9D CC6E 1624 F653 CB30 98D3 F7A7
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