CSS absolutely *can* control positioning, but it should be used with the right html layout. Ideally, you shouldn't use a <table> unless its, um, a table. If you wanna brute force this, look at the css "position" property. However, I don't recommend this, it's better to lay your page out using divs and spans, then use the css to "tweak" the layout, not force it.
Regarding your attempt to build a form inside your python code, you'll hit limitations all along the road. If you're trying to use the "right tool for the right job", then building a web page in python code is often confusing, usually extra work, and limited in its capability. Opinions vary on this, but I choose to implement all my code as simplistically as possible. Using the templates in web.py is useful in some cases, but for complex web pages where you have full control I do the following: - web.py is my "server". I attempt to limit code here to those things that can *only* be done in python. - web.py is by definition a web server. So, if I want an html page, I serve up an html page from the /static directory. Same with .js and .css. - browsers are powerful javascript interpreters, so I use javascript, ajax and css to build my user "experience". Pushing a lot of work out to the browsers is "distributed computing" - your server isn't doing work that could be done on a client. So, the general rules: - servers '*obtain and deliver', or 'accept and utilize' data* - html pages *define *the basic layout - css *refines* the layout stylistically, and - javascript obtains data from the server, *injects it* into the html, and *empowers* the user experience. That's my opinion, and pretty much the principles of "web 2.0". Your mileage may vary. It's a year old, but I made an attempt at a (basic) example of this concept. I hope at the very least this helps you solidify your design decisions, regardless of which way you choose to go. https://github.com/shannoncruey/webpy-jquery-sampleapp Hope this helps! S On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Christof Warlich < [email protected]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 24. Januar 2014 06:50:35 UTC+1 schrieb Chang.Jian: > >> learn some css. >> these things you talk about is controlled by css. >> http://www.w3schools.com/css/ >> > > I tried doing it with CCS initially, but while I could change things like > the pages background, I couldn't change the arrangement of the buttons. > After looking at the generated HTML code, this seems to be no surprise, as > the buttons are rendered into a one column table _hardcoded_. Thus, I doubt > that CCS could solve my problem. > > But I'd be more that happy for an example proving me wrong. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web.py" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
