Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-10 Thread Jaime Wong
Just a quick question Russ to make sure I understand better. Calendars and events (with dates and venue) or even for e.g. certain competition results (with points) would be more suitable to be done with tables rather than CSS right? With Regards Jaime Wong ~~

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-10 Thread James Ellis
I believe Calendars would be a great use of floats, just set a height and width, float left limit the row float to seven days and you have a cascading day based calendar. Cheers James Jaime Wong wrote: Just a quick question Russ to make sure I understand better. Calendars and events (with

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-10 Thread David McDonald
Yes, I have used this concept (floats) before for a calendar. If anyone wants the code, feel free to contact me off list. David McDonald Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:57:06

RE: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-10 Thread P.H.Lauke
] Lists weird br / requirement I believe Calendars would be a great use of floats, just set a height and width, float left limit the row float to seven days and you have a cascading day based calendar. Cheers James

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Zeltner
Frank wrote: I've also noticed that in order to get all the items in the record to display properly in the DIV, I have to add br clear=all / just before closing the DIV, otherwise, the content overlaps the bottom border of the DIV. give the last item in the div a clear: both; - or add a div

RE: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread Frank
Hey Patrick, My fault... I completely forgot to point to it... Sorry about that. http://c9.homelinux.com/iiiglobal/admin/notify.php Thanks, Frank Manno Design Interactive Group www.di-group.net It would actually be quite helpful if you could point us to the

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread Frank
Hi Michael, give the last item in the div a clear: both; - or add a div instead of the break tag (avoiding presentational markup) I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by giving the last item in the div the clear:both property... Does that mean, I'd have to create a class just for the

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread George S. Williams
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 12:12, Frank wrote: As for using a defition list... I'll look into that. Do you have any resources off hand that would give me a better idea of how to go about using that method? http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/index.cfm

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread Anders Ebdrup
: blue; } With regards Anders Ebdrup SmartPage Webdesign www.smartpage.dk - Original Message - From: Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:09 PM Subject: RE: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement Hey Patrick, My fault... I completely forgot

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread Tonico Strasser
Frank wrote: Re: tables... I wasn't sure if it was wise to use them here... But as you said, tables were meant for tabular data. Although I would still prefer to use a table-less layout (if it's still considered a wise choice). You would greatly improve accessibilty if you use appropriate table

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread russ weakley
Frank, I completely agree with Tonico. Many people getting into web standards assume that it is based on removing tables. This is incorrect. There are times and places for tables. However, one of the main aims of web standards is to make your content more accessible to devices and users. This

Re: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Frank Try setting a height attribute so the background won't shrink for lack of content Leo On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 10:55 AM, Frank wrote: Hey all, I've been running into a few weird problems with a layout I'm working on. I'm retrieving results from a database, and displaying each

RE: [WSG] Lists weird br / requirement

2004-03-09 Thread P.H.Lauke
Frank, your main problem from what I can see is that, as you're floating everything, you need to use a lot of clear, but as you're still removing things from the normal flow, you're getting issues with having the container elements, which have the background colours applied, to show through