Re: [css-d] Form layout patterns

2013-02-05 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh < sandy.pittendr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good Bradfrost link above. Thank you for that. > > Here's a question. Since the great CSS Positioning leap forward we no > longer have to use nested tables for overall page layoutas did most of >

Re: [css-d] Form layout patterns

2013-02-05 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh wrote: > Violent prejudice against tables for layout is similar, in a way, to the > way C-programmers now rail against the infamous goto statement, which is > sometimes (break out of a doubly nested loop) useful and not > harmful.if kept under control, and i

Re: [css-d] Form layout patterns

2013-02-05 Thread Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh
Good Bradfrost link above. Thank you for that. Here's a question. Since the great CSS Positioning leap forward we no longer have to use nested tables for overall page layoutas did most of us during the late 1990s. But I do occasionally (still) use tables for laying out forms. As long as the

Re: [css-d] Form layout patterns

2013-02-05 Thread Tom Livingston
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Chris Williams wrote: > With a hat tip to Phillipe, I've just started building off this model, and > I love it. Nice responsive form shown in the "form with left labels" > example. > > http://bradfrost.github.com/this-is-responsive/patterns.html > > I had been do

Re: [css-d] Form layout patterns

2013-01-30 Thread Chris Williams
With a hat tip to Phillipe, I've just started building off this model, and I love it. Nice responsive form shown in the "form with left labels" example. http://bradfrost.github.com/this-is-responsive/patterns.html I had been doing all tables for really tight control of forms, but this div-based

[css-d] Form layout patterns

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello all, Do any of you have a favorite form styling/structure pattern that you always use? I am particularly looking for a layout that has labels next to form fields as opposed to above them. Also, multiple fields on one line, like 'state' and 'zip' next to each other, with respective labels, al