[css-d] Vertical Align Theory

2009-04-23 Thread Jack Blankenships
If I am vertically aligning an element it seems that the only way to consistently do so with standard css is to implement a display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; style on the container. Is there any benefit this affords me over just creating a table? I seems odd to me that the new hero

Re: [css-d] Vertical Align Theory

2009-04-23 Thread Brian Hazelton
The benefit of using display:table-cell over an actual table is that if the text is not tabular, it does not belong in a table. Using display:table-cell will allow you to mimic the display of a table cell while being semantically correct. Another thing to note is that not all browsers implement

Re: [css-d] Vertical Align Theory

2009-04-23 Thread Joseph Sims
Another thing to note is that not all browsers implement display:table-cell Can you make mention of which don't? __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List

Re: [css-d] Vertical Align Theory

2009-04-23 Thread Jack Blankenships
I disagree. The idea that using display: table-cell does not seem to be any more semantically correct than simply placing the element in a table cell according to the W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#value-def-table-cell): table-cell (In HTML: TD, TH) Specifies that an

Re: [css-d] Vertical Align Theory

2009-04-23 Thread Ingo Chao
2009/4/23 Jack Blankenships learningcssindet...@gmail.com: If I am vertically aligning an element it seems that the only way to consistently do so with standard css is to implement a display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; style on the container. Is there any benefit this affords me over

Re: [css-d] Vertical Align Theory

2009-04-23 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Jack Blankenships learningcssindet...@gmail.com wrote: The idea that using display: table-cell does not seem to be any more semantically correct than simply placing the element in a table cell ... By definition, CSS declarations are NOT semantic but simply describe the

Re: [css-d] Vertical Align Theory

2009-04-23 Thread Venditelli, Daniel - Web Development Administrator
won't completely occur until well after the rest of us old-timers have retired. ;) -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Jack Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 4:07 PM To: css-d Subject: Re: [css-d] Vertical