Re: [css-d] CSS Tables

2012-08-23 Thread Rod Castello
On 8/23/12, bho...@aol.com wrote: > My first time trying CSS Tables, and I may have hit a wall. I'm very > familiar with using HTML, and I guess I'm looking for something similar to > > HTML's 'colspan' in CSS. I've got an immense table with some rows spanning > two > columns. Most rows have t

[css-d] CSS Tables

2012-08-23 Thread BHomis
My first time trying CSS Tables, and I may have hit a wall. I'm very familiar with using HTML, and I guess I'm looking for something similar to HTML's 'colspan' in CSS. I've got an immense table with some rows spanning two columns. Most rows have two cells. So far, I can't find how to do

Re: [css-d] CSS Tables and colspan

2012-06-14 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 14 juin 2012 à 16:19, Markus Ernst a écrit : > I was not aware of the fact that HTML table elements can also be turned into > block elements via CSS Yes, one can do that. It is a bit quirky in IE 8 and 9 (the elements don't really loose their 'tableness'), but that can be worked around by a

Re: [css-d] CSS Tables and colspan

2012-06-14 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 14.06.2012 03:33 schrieb Philippe Wittenbergh: Why don't you keep it as an html table, and then change the display value of table, tbody, tr, td, etc to 'block' within a media query ? Merci Philippe! I was not aware of the fact that HTML table elements can also be turned into block element

Re: [css-d] CSS Tables and colspan

2012-06-13 Thread Rod Castello
On 6/13/12, Markus Ernst wrote: > Hello > > I am not sure if this message has got through the technical problems, so > I take the liberty to send it again - I apologize for the case it worked > and just nobody had an answer. > > I have a form, which I put in a layout table: > > > > First

Re: [css-d] CSS Tables and colspan

2012-06-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 14 juin 2012 à 04:25, Markus Ernst a écrit : > I have a form, which I put in a layout table: > > ... > > In order to make it responsive, I changed it to s, and applied CSS > display:table-* declarations. > > ... > > div { display:table } > div div { display:table-row } > div div div { dis

[css-d] CSS Tables and colspan

2012-06-13 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello I am not sure if this message has got through the technical problems, so I take the liberty to send it again - I apologize for the case it worked and just nobody had an answer. I have a form, which I put in a layout table: First section of the form: Mylabel

[css-d] CSS Tables and colspan

2012-06-11 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello First, thanks to the css-d makers for your efforts to get this great list back online! To my question. I have a form, which I put in a layout table: First section of the form: Mylabel ... (more label/input pairs) Other section, quite long title

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-05 Thread Ingo Chao
Blake wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Ingo Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This will slow down >> "new inventions" a bit - which is good Actually, I said: "... which is good since the "conforming" browsers are not as free of bugs as some may believe." > > What? Restricting innovation

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-04 Thread Blake
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Ingo Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This will slow down > "new inventions" a bit - which is good What? Restricting innovation is never ever good. Ever. This is why the development community has been bashing IE on the head with a frying pan for as long as I can r

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-04 Thread Ingo Chao
Kenoli Oleari wrote: > ... > The Sitepoint book proposes beginning to move away from IE 6&7, > offering several strategies for doing this, all with the goal of > pushing people to upgrade to IE8. It suggests that this is the > beginning of a new cycle that will push CSS and site design to a

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-04 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > discuss.org] On Behalf Of Kenoli Oleari > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:33 AM > To: CSS Mailing List > Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS tables > > The rant is fine, though the link you sent is

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-04 Thread Kenoli Oleari
nal Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> discuss.org] On Behalf Of Kenoli Oleari >> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 7:10 PM >> To: CSS Mailing List >> Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS tables >> >> The Sitepoint book proposes beginning to

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > discuss.org] On Behalf Of Kenoli Oleari > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 7:10 PM > To: CSS Mailing List > Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS tables > > The Sitepoint book proposes beginning

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-03 Thread Kenoli Oleari
Nearly every design I use that is anything other than pablum ends up needing some kind of "trick" and often a different treatment for IE. It is true that so many people have been working to get current CSS to work that there is a "solution" for nearly every problem. This doesn't mean ther

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Blake wrote: > Honestly I don't feel that restricted by current specs. Could you > explain where you believe progress is necessary as far as layout is > concerned? We need ways to declare our own dimensional and positional relations between elements, and table is actually preventing rather than

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-03 Thread Blake
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally I'm hoping to see something better than table for layout > before too long, so we can have some progress. Honestly I don't feel that restricted by current specs. Could you explain where you believe progress is

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kenoli Oleari wrote: > What do members of this list think about CSS-table styles for page > layout now that IE 8 finally supports them? CSS table comes handy if one wants to replicate the old/new HTML table designs. Other than that "table" is a bit too inflexible design-wise, regardless of suppor

Re: [css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-03 Thread Blake
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Kenoli Oleari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do members of this list think about CSS-table styles for page > layout now that IE 8 finally supports them? I'm sure many of you are > aware of the new Sitepoint book focusing on these styles and the > future of CSS an

[css-d] CSS tables

2008-11-03 Thread Kenoli Oleari
What do members of this list think about CSS-table styles for page layout now that IE 8 finally supports them? I'm sure many of you are aware of the new Sitepoint book focusing on these styles and the future of CSS and suggesting that Microsoft's coming on board standards-wise with IE8 is

Re: [css-d] CSS & Tables

2008-06-13 Thread Jens Nedal
Chris Akins wrote: > I don't consider anything on that page to be tabular really. I think you > should go with CSS and no tables. > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Juanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We're redesigning our recently redesigned (1 year old) site from a 2 >> column t

Re: [css-d] CSS & Tables

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Akins
I don't consider anything on that page to be tabular really. I think you should go with CSS and no tables. On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Juanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We're redesigning our recently redesigned (1 year old) site from a 2 > column to a 3 column site. > > Here is th

[css-d] CSS & Tables

2008-06-13 Thread Juanita
Hi, We're redesigning our recently redesigned (1 year old) site from a 2 column to a 3 column site. Here is the current site, www.kcsm.org in which the main content is database generated into tables, and then the tables are styled with CSS. My co-worker and I are trying to decide if this databas