to a question is a slap-down.
Jenny
From: Dave Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 August 2008 19:02
To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
Subject: RE: Outputting columned UL tags
Why does this matter and why are we wasting
: Dave Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 August 2008 19:02
To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
Subject: RE: Outputting columned UL tags
Why does this matter and why are we wasting bandwidth and time on this
discussion? I'm sure that most people would agree that there are just some
things
ULs and LIs are better for search engine optimization.
???
Plus they're better semantic code.
???
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tables are not.
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From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:00 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Outputting columned UL tags
ULs and LIs are better for search engine optimization.
???
Plus they're better semantic code
So it's a little lighter, codewise, plus ULs and LIs are MEANT to display
lists of things while tables are not.
Frankly, I don't see your point.
ULs and LIs are meant to display lists, right, but what you want to do
is not a list,
it is a TABLE, so why not use a table ?
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I looks like Andy wants a list displayed in three columns. A table
implies that that the first row contains a record of data with fields.
I could have missed something, but the item at the top of column 1 is
not related to the item at the top of column 2 or column 3. So it is
just a 3 column list.
Claude Schneegans wrote:
so why not use a table ?
Or at least a table of lists.
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Aye...
Got it working, thank you. Claude...this isn't really tabular data. It's
simply a list of links.
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From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:48 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Outputting columned UL tags
I looks like Andy wants
this isn't really tabular data. It's simply a list of links.
This distinction is completely academic and irrelevant.
The purpose of a table in HTML has never be to display data exclusively,
but anything.
HTML is a formating language, not a database facility.
When you display things so they look
a TABLE.
Besides...TABLEs are for tabular data. Sure you CAN put other stuff into
them, but that wasn't their original intended purpose.
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From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:30 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Outputting columned UL
So even if I'm only saving a few characters, it's better than using a
TABLE.
Provided you know how to do it.
If you have to ask other people, then you are creating your own problem,
just for saving a few characters...
Besides...TABLEs are for tabular data. Sure you CAN put other stuff into
This distinction is completely academic and irrelevant.
The purpose of a table in HTML has never be to display data
exclusively, but anything.
Well, no, that's not correct. Tables were intended to display tabular data.
They weren't designed for generic layout uses, and as a result they're not
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Claude Schneegans
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Besides...TABLEs are for tabular data. Sure you CAN put other stuff into
them, but that wasn't their original intended purpose.
IMO you are making a confusion between database tables and HTML tables.
Just to agree
, August 14, 2008 11:27 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Outputting columned UL tags
So even if I'm only saving a few characters, it's better than using a
TABLE.
Provided you know how to do it.
If you have to ask other people, then you are creating your own problem,
just for saving a few characters
Andy,
Beautiful news for you!!!
You can use either method and your 'display' will be correct. Loop over a td
in a table or loop over a li in a ul that is formatted through CSS.
The CSS method's main benefit to users is that the code is 'accessible' to
screen readers, but you will need to
then HTML tables are best
used for database type information.
No doubt about that.
But the question here is should I use a table to output a list
if I want it to look like a table, my answer is definitely YES.
The only purpose on HTML is to define the layout of a page.
If your layout requires
Tables were intended to display tabular data.
Correct, then if you want a list to be displayed as a tabular data, use
a TABLE.
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From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Outputting columned UL tags
then HTML tables are best
used for database type information.
No doubt about that.
But the question here is should I use
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Claude Schneegans
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Tables were intended to display tabular data.
Correct, then if you want a list to be displayed as a tabular data, use
a TABLE.
I hate to drag this out further, but there what if there was more to
it than display?
I hate to drag this out further
Me too...
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Thanks.
I'm looking to output a series of ULs and LIs in a 3 column fashion, like this:
link1--link4--link7
link2--link5--link8
link3--link6
I've got code which lets me do it like this:
link1--link2--link3
link4--link5--link6
I'm looking to output a series of ULs and LIs in a 3 column fashion
Why ULs? Isn't this more a table case?
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columned UL tags
I'm looking to output a series of ULs and LIs in a 3 column fashion, like
this:
link1--link4--link7
link2--link5--link8
link3--link6
I've got code which lets me do it like this:
link1--link2--link3
link4--link5
Not really, because these are links. ULs and LIs are better for search
engine optimization. Plus they're better semantic code.
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From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:02 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Outputting columned UL
Try this out. myVar would be your quey record count or whatever.
cfoutput
cfset myvar = 24
cfset numColumns = 3
cfloop from=1 to=#Round(myvar/numColumns)# index=i
link#i# -
cfloop from=1 to=#numColumns# index=j
cfset nextOut = i + Round(myvar/numColumns)*j /
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Dave Phillips
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy,
Check out Ben Nadel's blog entry from March last year:
http://tinyurl.com/5tjcmf
It looks like what I just sent you is the same idea as Ben Nadel's
blog. Mine is just a lot less pretty with less line breaks and
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