Hi all, along a simliar vein to this question, how's this one; If you are designing a form/survey, would you also go for a table? It's not *really* tabular data, you are using the table for layout/perhaps grouping of elements more than anything.
I know we should be using things like fieldsets, tab order, labels and all other wonderful form elements like that, but they are also compatible with tables (except perhaps fieldsets to some extent...), but what's the verdict about the overall layout? I know some forms are easily re-designed to avoid tables, but others would really struggle without some sort of rigid, grid-based layouts. Where do we sit on this one? Personally, I think I'd go for a table-based design if the layout was particularly complex or I thought it required it, but I'd attempt to redesign the form (if that was an option) so that this wasn't necessary. Beau -- Beau Lebens Information Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dented Reality - www.dentedreality.com.au Information Architecture, Usability, Web Development // -----Original Message----- // From: Adam Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] // Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2003 9:01 AM // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Subject: Re: [WSG]Tables or DIVs / Spans? // // // Thanks for your feedback :) // // I thought td with class was correct for tabular data - I just needed some // confirmation. // // James: I might do a chmod 100 on the php code. *grin*. then again i might // not - i'd need to change root passwords or obfuscate to actually // enforce it // as I don't have any of encode or compile utilites (but now i'm // getting off // topic). // // ----- Original Message ----- // From: <Multiple> // To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> // Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:20 AM // Subject: Re: [WSG]Tables or DIVs / Spans? // // ***************************************************** // The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ // ***************************************************** // // // ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
