Hi, Loren,
Don't let this discourage you from the attempt to be standards-compliant in
your designs. Despite what may be said to the contrary, there are very good
reasons for attempting to achieve standards compliance, and the table as a
positioning element is in fact deprecated. Sure, there are exceptions to
everything, and I won't tell you that there aren't times when a table might
offer a solution that no other method would provide, but this isn't one of
them.
For one solution, see this A List Apart article
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/footers, which addresses your problem
strictly from a CSS standpoint, and quite successfully. If you are not
familiar with ALA, be sure to bookmark it, along with Peter-Paul Koch's
Quirks Mode (http://www.quirksmode.org), the CSS Zen Garden
(http://www.csszengarden.com), PositionIsEverything
(http://www.positioniseverything.net), and several other of the leading CSS
forum/blog/tutorial sites. There's a ton of information available on the Web
about CSS, and if you're not already an accomplished search engine user, try
this site http://searchenginewatch.com/facts for a quick guide and some more
in-depth tutorials as to how to maximize your effectiveness when looking for
answers to questions such as this; appropriate search phrases are not always
obvious. For example, the ALA article above was found by searching on "css
footers standards compliant."
Cheers,
Scott
"Google is your friend."
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "loren wolsiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:41 PM
Subject: [wdvltalk] css two column layout
Hi Folks,
I need some advice on css layout and if possible, a cure.
I have a website designed that looks awesome, styles and divs.
Completely fluid 2 column design and fits any screen resolution.
This will have a content management system so one column will always be
taller and since one is slightly shaded, it looks like it is dangling
there.
All of the css ideas that I find are of a smoke and mirrors nature. Faux
columns huge borders to look like divs and huge stylesheets full of hacks
for some of the more realistic approaches.
On my home site http://www.wlmark.com/ I am using JavaScript to balance
the columns.
(I saw a post the other day about css and layout and the code is yours to
take.)
I really want to do this with divs but am seeing that a simple table
layout would be easy to style out and will be compliant with pretty much
every browser out there and my columns would line up.
Can someone talk me out of tables?
help cecil help ;-)
Thank you
Regards
Loren Wolsiffer
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