Re: [css-d] How would you approach an organization chart in CSS?

2008-06-11 Thread tedd
At 4:51 PM -0700 6/10/08, Conjurer wrote: I need to redo a organization chart that is a graphic and therefore not editable. I could rework it in another graphic, but I was trying to think how you could do it with just markup and CSS. It is a tree with a President at the root, 4 positions under

[css-d] How would you approach an organization chart in CSS?

2008-06-10 Thread Conjurer
I need to redo a organization chart that is a graphic and therefore not editable. I could rework it in another graphic, but I was trying to think how you could do it with just markup and CSS. It is a tree with a President at the root, 4 positions under him, and two of those have a level of

Re: [css-d] How would you approach an organization chart in CSS?

2008-06-10 Thread Bob Meetin
You said just markup and CSS, but honestly this sounds more like a table with many of the cells spanning multiple columns and perhaps a narrow vertical background image used as the vertical line. Conjurer wrote: I need to redo a organization chart that is a graphic and therefore not

Re: [css-d] How would you approach an organization chart in CSS?

2008-06-10 Thread Patrick James
Hi I think it could be done with a lot of absolute positioning but personally I would just rework it as another graphic in a vector drawing program, then export that as a .png and use that. When you need to edit it, do it in the vector drawing program and export again as .png for use on

Re: [css-d] How would you approach an organization chart in CSS?

2008-06-10 Thread Michael Stevens
Looks like a table to me... I wouldn't be afraid of using a table for it but making it a graphic would be MUCH easier than screwing with any HTML element. Mike -Original Message- I need to redo a organization chart that is a graphic and therefore not editable. I could rework it in

Re: [css-d] How would you approach an organization chart in CSS?

2008-06-10 Thread Zak Owen
I would agree with an image for the kind of char you want, but don't toss out the idea of reworking the chart to take better advantage of HTML elements and CSS, such as a hierarchical OL - you could have a class=levelN (where N is the level, 0, 1, 2, etc) and each class could have a set indent